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Glyph for U+02C6
Source: Noto Sans

U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent

U+02C6 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+02B0 to U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+02C6 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

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 Latin: circumflexus "bent around"—a translation of the Greek: περισπωμένη (perispōménē).

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.

In English, the circumflex, like other diacritics, is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language (for example entrepôt, crème brûlée). In mathematics and statistics, the circumflex diacritic is sometimes used to denote a function and is called a hat operator.

A free-standing version of the circumflex symbol, ^, is encoded in ASCII and Unicode and has become known as caret and has acquired special uses, particularly in computing and mathematics. The original caret, , is used in proofreading to indicate insertion.

Representations

System Representation
710
UTF-8 CB 86
UTF-16 02 C6
UTF-32 00 00 02 C6
URL-Quoted %CB%86
HTML hex reference ˆ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌ˆ
HTML named entity ˆ
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) C6 D9
Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 B7 33
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) F6
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) F6
Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) F6
AGL: Latin-1 circumflex
AGL: Latin-2 circumflex
AGL: Latin-3 circumflex
AGL: Latin-4 circumflex
AGL: Latin-5 circumflex
Adobe Glyph List circumflex

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
Unicode 1 Name (na1) MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX
Block (blk) Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category (gc) Modifier Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+02C6 Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R