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