The
caret is an inverted V-shaped
grapheme. It is the spacing character
^ in
ASCII (at
code point 5E
hex) and other
character sets that may also be called a
hat,
control,
uparrow, or less frequently
chevron,
xor sign,
to the power of,
pointer (in
Pascal), or
wedge. Officially, this character is referred to as
circumflex accent in both ASCII and
Unicode terminology (because of its historical use in
overstrike), whereas
caret refers to a similar but lowered Unicode character: . Additionally, there is a lowered variant with a stroke: .