Editing Circumflex (section)

===Freestanding circumflex <span class="anchor" id="Freestanding"></span>===
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There is a similar but larger character, {{unichar|005E|circumflex accent|html=}}, which was originally intended to emulate the typewriter's [[dead key]] function using backspace and overtype. Nowadays, this glyph is more often called a [[caret]] instead (though the term has a long-standing meaning as a [[proofreading|proofreader's]] mark, with [[Caret (proofreading)|its own codepoints]] in Unicode). It is, however, unsuitable for use as a diacritic on modern computer systems, as it is a spacing character. Two other spacing circumflex characters in Unicode are the smaller [[modifier letter]]s {{unichar|02C6|modifier letter circumflex accent|use=IPA}} and {{unichar|a788|modifier letter low circumflex accent|use=IPA}}, mainly used in [[Phonetics|phonetic]] notations or as a sample of the diacritic in isolation.