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Technical information

Symbol´
NameAcute accent
Unicode numberU+00B4
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ´, or U+00B4, is known as the "Acute Accent". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Mark, Spacing Combining" category. Visually, it is a diacritic that appears as a small line slanting to the right and is placed above a vowel. The Acute Accent is used in several modern and classical languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Czech. It often signifies a specific kind of vowel pronunciation, usually indicating a stressed syllable. In some languages, it can also change the meaning of the word. The specific usage of the Acute Accent can depend on the particular conventions of a language, but it generally serves as an indicator of stress or vowel quality.

Encoding

HTML Entity´
HTML Entity (hex)´
HTML Entity (named)´
URL Escape Code%C2%B4
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xB4
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010110100
UTF-160x00B4
UTF-320x000000B4

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00B4"
CSS Code\00B4
JavaScript"\u00B4"
Perl\x{00B4}
Python 2u"\u00B4"
Python 3\u00B4
Ruby\u{00B4}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ´ in sentence and in bold like this ´ and in italic like this ´.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#180;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00B4";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References