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＾

fullwidth circumflex accent

Fullwidth Circumflex Accent

＾ is a distinct character: the fullwidth counterpart of ASCII ^, designed for the wider spacing used in Japanese and other East Asian text. In Japanese internet text, it also forms the eyes in （＾ω＾）, a playful text face whose whole sequence supplies the expression.

Text symbol

Search it as: fullwidth caret · zenkaku caret · ＾ kaomoji
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ＾ means

No. ＾ is a distinct, fullwidth counterpart of ASCII ^.

Fullwidth means it is designed for the wider character spacing used in Japanese and other East Asian text. The font and layout determine its actual displayed width.

The Japanese character standard JIS X 0208-1983 assigned it position 3-2130. Unicode's wide-form mapping links it to ^, so software that folds width variants can change ＾ to ^.

Typographic on its own; playful inside a Japanese text face.

Use ASCII ^ where a URL, email field, or program expects ASCII.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

Alone in East Asian text

A typographic fullwidth mark; its visible width depends on font and layout.

Inside （＾ω＾）

Eye shapes in a Japanese text face; the whole face supplies its playful tone.

Don't confuse it with

Circumflex Accent

A URL or other field that requires ASCII may reject ＾; use the ASCII ^ there.

Questions people ask

Why does ＾ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ＾

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType FF3E, then Alt+X to get ＾.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “fullwidth circumflex accent”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType ff3e, then Enter or Space.

HTML

＾

CSS

\FF3E

Japanese keyboard

On layouts with a へ key, Japanese input mode can produce ＾; half-width alphanumeric mode produces ASCII ^. The Japanese input method's symbol list is another route.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

＾

HTML hex

＾

CSS content

content: "\FF3E";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%EF%BC%BE

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

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