How to display tabs characters as ^I

Hi,
when I open the file which includes tabs characters I can replace tabs with some other characters if I want like using:
:%s/^I/ /g
To get ^I I press Control+V and then press i key.

I know ^I is a symbol for tabs. But is there a way instead of horizontal spacing produced by pressing tab key to display ^I control character?
Just like for example when Control+V and m is pressed to display carriage return character ^M

So, how to display ^I (as single character) instead of horizontal spacing produced by tab key?

Thanks

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