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The term "circumflex" is also used to describe similar tonal accents that result from combining two vowels in related languages such as Sanskrit and Latin. Since Modern Greek has a stress accent instead of a pitch accent, the circumflex has been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography.
Typewriter with French (AZERTY) keyboard: à, è, é, ç ù have dedicated keys; the circumflex and diaeresis accents have dead keys On typewriters designed for languages that routinely use diacritics (accent marks), there are two possible ways to type these: keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters (with the diacritic included); alternatively a dead key mechanism can be provided.
The CSA keyboard layout (also named Canadian Multilingual Standard – CMS) is used by some Canadians, mostly in Quebec and New-Brunswick. Though the caret (^) is missing, it is easily inserted by typing the circumflex accent followed by a space. This layout use three levels and two groups, up to 5 characters per key.
It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...
Latin Capital Letter W with circumflex 0308 U+0175 ŵ 373 ŵ Latin Small Letter W with circumflex 0309 U+0176 Ŷ 374 Ŷ Latin Capital Letter Y with circumflex 0310 U+0177 ŷ 375 ŷ Latin Small Letter Y with circumflex 0311 U+0178 Ÿ 376 Ÿ Latin Capital Letter Y with diaeresis: 0312 U+0179 Ź 377 Ź
In distinction to the angled Latin circumflex, the Greek circumflex is printed in the form of either a tilde ( ̃) or an inverted breve ( ̑). It was also known as ὀξύβαρυς oxýbarys "high-low" or "acute-grave", and its original form (^) was from a combining of the acute and grave diacritics. Because of its compound nature, it only ...
Caret, Circumflex, Guillemet, Hacek, Glossary of mathematical symbols ^ Circumflex (symbol) Caret (The freestanding circumflex symbol is known as a caret in computing and mathematics) Circumflex (diacritic), Caret (computing), Hat operator ̂: Circumflex (diacritic) Grave, Tilde: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic: Colon: Semicolon, Comma
On the Macintosh, many keyboard layouts employ dead keys. For example, when ⌥ Option+i are first pressed simultaneously and then followed by a, the result is â. [6] On a Macintosh, pressing one of these Option-key combinations creates the accent and highlights it, then the final character appears when the key for the base character is pressed.