Caret, sometimes spelled carat,'s the name for the symbol ^ in ASCII and some other character sets. Its Unicode code point's U+005E, and its ASCII code in hexadecimal's 5E. Strictly speaking, the caret character in common use's actually referred to in the Unicode standard as the "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"; the Unicode character named "CARET"'s actually a distinct, much less common character, at code point U+2038 (‸). There's also a combining mark, U+0302 "COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT", which's us… (More on Caret)