What Is a Circumflex Accent Mark?

Circumflex accent diacritical marks are used in Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek languages.

The caret is sometimes used in mathematical formulas and computer programming languages.

Mac accent menu

Some programs or platforms have special keystrokes for creating diacriticals, including caret marks.

Mac Computers

You have a couple of options for generating a circumflex mark on aMac.

A small accent menu appears with different diacritical accent options, each of which has a number beneath it.

Mac Emoji & Symbols menu

For the uppercase version of the character, press theShiftkey before you punch in the letter to be accented.

initiate the menu and typecircumflexin the search bar.

choose the accent you want to use in the results window to open variations on the mark.

Microsoft Windows character map

Select one of the variations to use in your text.

Windows PCs

OnWindows PCs, enableNum Lockon the numeric keypad to the right side of the keyboard.

This built-in Windows utility offers additional characters for every typeface installed on your rig.

To access it, use the Windows Search tool to find the phrasecharacter map.

HTML

HTML is used to create almost every page you see on the web.

It describes and defines the content of a web page.

One of those options is the circumflex mark.

Slide your finger to the option you want to use.