circumflex

Also known as control, uparrow, fang, shark, shark-fin, pointer, wedge, hat

The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of the ().

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The circumflex is a curved accent mark placed above letters in writing systems based on Latin and Greek alphabets, used in many modern languages as well as in systems for writing non-Latin scripts. It gets its name from a Latin phrase meaning "bent around," which describes the shape of the mark itself.

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Key facts

Diacritic.char: ◌̂
Diacritic.name: Circumflex (diacritic)
Symbol.mark: ^
Symbol.name: Circumflex (symbol)
Symbol.unicode: (freestanding symbol, see below) (IPA, UPA etc. symbol) (freestanding)
Symbol.see also: Similar free-standing accent symbols:
Symbol.different from: (diacritic)

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TeX string: \^{o}
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Contents

Uses
Diacritic on vowels
Pitch
Length
Stress
Vowel quality
Nasality
Other articulatory features
Visual discrimination between homographs
Diacritic on consonants
Abbreviation, contraction, and disambiguation
English
French
Italian
Latin
Norwegian
Portuguese
Welsh
Mathematics
Music
Circumflex below
Unicode
Freestanding circumflex
Typing the circumflex accent
See also
Notes
References
External links

The circumflex in the Latin script is chevron-shaped (), while the Greek circumflex may be displayed either like a tilde () or like an inverted breve (). For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin alphabet, precomposed characters are available.