This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2038 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “caret” for use in screen reading software.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The caret () is a V-shaped grapheme, usually inverted and sometimes extended, used in proofreading and typography to indicate that additional material needs to be inserted at the point indicated in the text. The same symbol is also used as a diacritical mark modifying another character (as in â), for which purpose it is known as a circumflex.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8248
UTF-8
E2 80 B8
UTF-16
20 38
UTF-32
00 00 20 38
URL-Quoted
%E2%80%B8
HTML hex reference
‸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
‸
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 A7 37
digraph
Ca
RFC 5137
\u'2038'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2038
C and C++
\u2038
C#
\u2038
CSS
\002038
Excel
=UNICHAR(8248)
Go
\u2038
JavaScript
\u2038
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2038}
JSON
\u2038
Java
\u2038
Lua
\u{2038}
Matlab
char(8248)
Perl
"\x{2038}"
PHP
\u{2038}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2038'
PowerShell
`u{2038}
Python
\u2038
Ruby
\u{2038}
Rust
\u{2038}
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