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Is there an upside down caret character?

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Is there an upside down caret?

The upside down version of ^ is not in the extended ASCII chart either. It does not look possible "without using a picture or modifying the font file". I wonder if any Asian language has that symbol? Many LCD display controllers have RAM to handle additional font characters.

How do you type a downward caret?

Press the num lock key to enable the numeric keypad. Use Fn key + NumLk keys to turn on Num Lock on laptops without the numeric keypad. Press and hold the Alt key and type 25 using the numeric keypad. After typing the Alt code (i.e. 25), release the [Alt] key you pressed down.

What is an inverted caret?

inverted caret (plural inverted carets) A caret (^) that has been inverted. quotations ▼ (now only informally) A háček. quotations ▼

What is the downward carrot called?

The symbol ^ has many uses in programming languages, where it is typically called a caret. It can signify exponentiation, the bitwise XOR operator, string concatenation, and control characters in caret notation, among other uses.


There's ▲: ▲ and ▼: ▼


Don't forget the (logical and) and (logical or) characters, that's what I use for indicating sort direction: HTML entities ∧ & ∨ respectively.


There's always a lowercase "v". But seriously, aside from Unicode, all I can find would be &darr, which looks like ↓.


An upside-down circumflex is called a caron, or a háček.

It has an HTML entity in the TADS Latin-2 extension to HTML: ˇ and looks like this: ˇ which unfortunately doesn't display in the same size/proportion as the ^ caret.

Or you can use the unicode U+30C.


˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅˅

 ˅˅˅ Hǝɹǝ,s ɐ ɯɐʇɔɥᴉuƃ sǝʇ˙ ˅˅˅
 ˄˄˄ Here's a matching set. ˄˄˄

˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄˄

"Actual size": ˅˄˅˄
(more info)


Edit: Another Option...

⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁⋁ Unicode #8897 / U+22C1 (info) named N-ARY LOGICAL OR

⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀⋀ Unicode #8896 / U+22C0 (info) named N-ARY LOGICAL AND

"Actual size": ⋁⋀⋁⋀