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Caret

Group: Punctuation

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About this character

Caret belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2038. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+2038
Hex
2038
Decimal
8248
HTML
‸
CSS
\2038
JavaScript
\u2038
Python
\u2038
UTF-8
E2 80 B8

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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