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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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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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