Circumflex Accent
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 94 on the numeric keypad to insert circumflex accent.
- Alt code
- Alt+94
- HTML entity
- ^
- Unicode
- U+005E
About this symbol
The caret, ^, took the place of an up arrow in ASCII, and it still means “to the power of” in many calculators and programs, as in 2^3 for eight. On many European keyboards it is a dead key for adding the circumflex accent, as in ê.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
- Type
- Modifier symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
- Used in ASCII-based representation of exponentiation
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.