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U+005E · CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT

Circumflex Accent

  • CodepointU+005E
  • NameCIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
  • Decimal94
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySk — Modifier Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+005E (^) is CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT, a modifier symbol in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-85E1 byte
UTF-16005E1 code unit
UTF-320000005E4 bytes
HTML named^named character reference
HTML decimal^
HTML hex^
CSS\5Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u005E
JSON\u005E
Python\u005E
Python\N{CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT}by name
Java / C#\u005E
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{5E}
Go\u005E
Ruby\u005E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(94)
URL-encoded%5Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+02C4˄Modifier Letter Up Arrowhead U+02C6ˆModifier Letter Circumflex Accent
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Characters built on ^

U+FF3E＾Fullwidth Circumflex Accent
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+0058XLatin Capital Letter X U+0059YLatin Capital Letter Y U+005AZLatin Capital Letter Z U+005B[Left Square Bracket U+005C\Reverse Solidus U+005D]Right Square Bracket U+005F_Low Line U+0060`Grave Accent U+0061aLatin Small Letter A U+0062bLatin Small Letter B U+0063cLatin Small Letter C U+0064dLatin Small Letter D