Caret

Caret ( /ˈkærət/) is an inverted V-shaped grapheme. Specifically, caret commonly refers to 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, fang, shark (or shark-fin), 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: U+2038 ‸ caret (HTML: ‸). Additionally, there is another lowered variant with a stroke: U+2041 ⁁ caret insertion point (HTML: ⁁).