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Technical information

Symbolà
NameLatin small letter a with grave
Unicode numberU+00E0
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement7. Letters
DescriptionThe Unicode character à, or U+00E0, is known as "Latin Small Letter A with Grave". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Letter, Lowercase" category. Visually, it represents the lowercase letter 'a' with a grave accent (`) above it. The grave accent is a diacritical mark used in various languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. In these languages, it marks a change in pronunciation and sometimes in stress or tone. For example, in French, 'à' is pronounced like 'a', but is used to mean 'to' in certain contexts. This character is also used in other linguistic contexts, such as transliteration of non-Latin scripts. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Latin Small Letter A with Grave can depend on the language and context.

Encoding

HTML Entityà
HTML Entity (hex)à
HTML Entity (named)à
URL Escape Code%C3%A0
UTF-8 (hex)0xC3 0xA0
UTF-8 (binary)1100001110100000
UTF-160x00E0
UTF-320x000000E0

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00E0"
CSS Code\00E0
JavaScript"\u00E0"
Perl\x{00E0}
Python 2u"\u00E0"
Python 3\u00E0
Ruby\u{00E0}

Preview

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

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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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#224;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00E0";
}

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