Caret
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Caret has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ‸
- Unicode
- U+2038
About this symbol
The caret is the proofreader’s mark for “insert something here”. Its name is Latin for “it is missing”. Computer keyboards use a similar character, ^, also called a caret, for powers and for other jobs in programming.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CARET
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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