U+0060 "`" Grave Accent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0060 "`" Grave Accent is a punctuation mark and diacritic symbol in the Unicode standard, located in the Basic Latin block. Historically derived from the Latin acute accent rotated downward, it is most commonly used in computing as a standalone character to denote a grave accent in various languages such as French and Italian, where it modifies vowel pronunciation, and as an essential element in ASCII for enclosing shell commands and code in many programming contexts. Additionally, it serves as a key component in the backtick syntax for template literals and command substitution in languages like JavaScript and UNIX shells, while also appearing as a diacritic combining mark when paired with other characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0060 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Grave Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Grave |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ` |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ` |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x60 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0060 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000060 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0060 |