U+005E Circumflex Accent
U+005E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Modifier Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+005E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “circumflex accent” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: accent, caret, chevron, circumflex, control, hat, pointer, power, wedge, xor sign.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Caret is the name used familiarly for the character ^, (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing ⇧ Shift+6. The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The formal ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex".
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 94 |
UTF-8 | 5E |
UTF-16 | 00 5E |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 5E |
URL-Quoted | %5E |
HTML hex reference | ^ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌^ |
HTML named entity | ^ |
LATEX | \^{} |
AGL: Latin-1 | asciicircum |
AGL: Latin-2 | asciicircum |
AGL: Latin-3 | asciicircum |
AGL: Latin-4 | asciicircum |
AGL: Latin-5 | asciicircum |
Adobe Glyph List | asciicircum |
digraph | '> |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT | |
SPACING CIRCUMFLEX | |
Basic Latin | |
Modifier Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |