Preview keyboard shortcuts

iMac with SnowLeopard 10.6.8
I use Preview to view and annotate screenshots.
Rather than accessing the pulldown menu Tools --> Annotate --> Add Text (etc), I would like to use a keyboard shortcut instead.
"Add Text" indicates  ^ command T  is the combination (where "command" is the Apple cloverleaf symbol). 
What key does the  ^  indicate?   (It's not shift 6, I tried that.)

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