Unicode Characters for iOS Shortcuts

NEW: insert combinations of scientific and math symbols fast with an iOS Shortcut – post

Further to my blog post about typing scientific notation and other symbols natively on the iOS keyboard I have included various Unicode characters below for you to copy to your device.
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Symbols below are followed by an example iOS text replacement shortcut (where I’ve made one).

(Scroll down further for lists of symbols without example shortcuts.)

Superscripts
⁺ ^+
⁻ ^-
⁰ ^0
¹ ^1
² ^2
³ ^3
⁴ ^4
⁵ ^5
⁶ ^6
⁷ ^7
⁸ ^8
⁹ ^9
ˢᵗ or ˢᵀ ^st
ⁿᵈ or ᴺᴰ ^nd
ʳᵈ or ᴿᴰ ^rd
ᵗʰ or ᵀᴴ ^th
(I prefer the capitalised versions in which only the “s” and “t” are of different sizes in some apps)

I’ve updated my shortcuts for ordinal Number suffixes. I have created shortcuts for every date number up to 31 as follows:

1st➝ 1ˢᵀ 2nd➝ 2ᴺᴰ 3rd➝ 3ᴿᴰ 4th➝ 4ᵀᴴ … 30th➝ 30ᵀᴴ 31st➝ 31ˢᵀ

This makes typing dates with superscript a a great deal faster as I don’t have to type a space to trigger the shortcut entry and delete it immediately after. It took some time to enter them but it was worth it in my opinion.

Subscripts
₀ ,0
₁ ,1
₂ ,2
₃ ,3

Numbers & Fractions
¼ 1/4
½ 1/2
¾ 3/4
⅓ 1/3

① (1)
② (2)
③ (3)
④ (4)
⑤ (5)

Math Symbols
× #x or xx
÷ #/
± +_
∞ #infinite
∝ #prop
√ sqrt
≠ !=
≈ #approx
∼
⇒ =>
∴ ^…
∫ #integral
θ

Arrows
➝ ->
← <-
↑ |^
↓ |v
↕︎ |^v
⇔ <->

Miscellaneous
✓ #tick or ///
✘ #cross
☢
℃
℉
 aapl
₿ btc

✂
⌫ #back
⌦ #del
⏏ #eject
⌘ #cmd
⎋ #esc
⏎ #ret
⌥ #option
⌃ #ctrl
␛
␡
̄   #macron
̇   #dot
The macron and dot directly above are combining symbols, so if you type it after a character (no space, like this V#dot or x#macron) it will insert a macron or dot over the character (e.g. V̇ and x̄).

Greek
α alpha or greeka
β beta or greekb
γ gamma or greekg
θ theta
λ lambda
μ mu
π pi
ρ rho
τ tau
σ sigma
δ delta
φ phi
ω omega
Ω Omega
Δ Delta

Just the symbols without “shortcuts”

Superscripts
⁺ ⁻
⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ⁽ ⁾
Subscripts
₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉ ₊ ₋

Numbers
¼ ½ ¾ ⅓
① ② ③ ④ ⑤

Math Symbols
× ÷ ± ∞ ∝ √≠ ≈ ∼ ⇒ ∴ ∫

Arrows
➝ ← ↑ ↓ ⇔ ↕︎

Miscellaneous
✓ ✘ ☢ ℃ ℉  ₿✂ ⌫ ⌦ ⏏ ⌘ ⎋ ⏎ ⌥ ⌃ ␛ ␡  ̄

Greek
α β γ θ λ μ π ρ τ σ δ φ ω Ω Δ

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