^
Technical information
| Symbol | ^ | |
| Name | Circumflex accent | |
| Unicode number | U+005E | |
| Category | ASCII Table6. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ^, or U+005E, is known as the "Circumflex Accent". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block and falls under the "Symbol, Modifier" category in the Unicode standard. This character is often used in written languages to indicate a variety of pronunciation phenomena, such as stress, pitch, tone, length, and more. In mathematics and computing, the caret symbol is often used to denote exponentiation. The specific use and appearance of this character can depend on the context in which it is being used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ^ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ^ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ^ | |
| URL Escape Code | %5E | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5E | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x005E | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000005E |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u005E" | |
| CSS Code | \005E | |
| JavaScript | "\u005E" | |
| Perl | \x{005E} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u005E" | |
| Python 3 | \u005E | |
| Ruby | \u{005E} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ^ in sentence and in bold like this ^ and in italic like this ^.
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Font size:
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>^</span>
span {
content: "\005E";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana