How to Type Trademark Symbol (™) on Any Device | Quick Guide
How to type trademark symbol ™ on Windows (Alt+0153), Mac (Option+2), iPhone, Android, and HTML (™). With sources from Microsoft, Apple, and USPTO.
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Symbol Reference16
Trade Mark Sign (U+2122)
Registered Sign (U+00AE)
Service Mark (U+2120)
Copyright Sign (U+00A9)
Sound Recording Copyright (U+2117)
ASCII trademark substitute
ASCII registered substitute
ASCII service mark substitute
ASCII copyright substitute
Phonetic Extensions superscript TM (U+1D40 U+1D39)
Plain letters TM
Circled Latin Capital Letter R (U+24C7)
Circled Latin Capital Letter C (U+24B8)
Circled Latin Capital Letter M (U+24C2)
Raised MC Sign — Canadian French marque de commerce (U+1F16A)
Circled WZ — German Warenzeichen (U+1F12E)
The trademark symbol ™ is Unicode codepoint U+2122 in the Letterlike Symbols block — a single character your device already supports, but rarely shows on the default keyboard. This page explains exactly how to type ™ on Windows (Alt+0153), Mac (Option+2), iPhone, Android, Linux, and in HTML, Word, Google Docs, Slack, and Discord. Each method is sourced from Microsoft, Apple, and Unicode official documentation. Click the symbols below to copy ™ instantly, or follow the platform-specific shortcuts to type it directly.
💡Pro Tips
- •On Windows laptops without a numeric keypad, the Win+. emoji panel is faster than enabling Fn-mapped numpad — install once, use forever
- •Set up OS-level Text Replacement once (iOS, macOS, or Android Personal Dictionary) so 'tm' expands to ™ in every app — it pays back the 30-second setup within a week
- •In Word and Google Docs, AutoCorrect already converts (tm) → ™ — do not disable it unless you intentionally need to type the literal three characters '(tm)'
- •When sending ™ via email, verify in your Sent folder before assuming it survived transit — older Outlook and some webmail clients silently downconvert ™ to (TM)
- •Per USPTO TMEP §906.02, ™ can be used immediately for an unregistered claim, but ® requires a granted federal registration — using ® prematurely can void your right to register
- •For brand names appearing many times on a page, mark the first instance with ™ (or ®) and omit it on subsequent mentions — this is standard editorial practice and reads cleaner than repeating the symbol every time
- •For SEO, include both 'BrandName™' and 'BrandName' in your content — search engines index both, and you get legal accuracy plus query-match coverage
- •In customer-facing copy, never use the ASCII substitute '(TM)' if the destination supports Unicode — the Unicode ™ is shorter, cleaner, and standard since 1993
🔧How to Use
Methods for inputting symbols on different devices and platforms
🪟How to Type ™ on Windows
- 1Alt code: hold Alt and type 0153 on the numeric keypad (NumLock must be on) — releases the Alt key and ™ appears (verified per Microsoft Support common symbol character codes table)
- 2Word/Outlook hex method: type 2122, then press Alt+X — Word converts the hex code to ™ in place
- 3AutoCorrect: in Word, Outlook, and OneNote, type (tm) and the next space or punctuation triggers conversion to ™
- 4Emoji panel: press Win+. (period) or Win+; (semicolon), search 'trademark' in the panel, click ™ to insert — works in every Windows 10/11 app
- 5Character Map: search 'charmap' in Start, choose any font, set Subset to 'Letterlike Symbols', double-click ™, click Copy, then paste
- 6Laptop without numeric keypad: enable NumLock + use the embedded number pad on Fn-mapped keys, or use the emoji panel method above
💡 Tip: The easiest method is to copy symbols directly from this page to your clipboard, then paste them wherever needed.
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