U+00B4 "´" Acute Accent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00B4 "´" Acute Accent is a diacritical mark used in many languages, such as Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Greek, to indicate a specific pronunciation, stress, or tone on a vowel, as seen in words like "café" or "résumé." It is distinct from the apostrophe or the single quotation mark, though it can appear similar in some fonts, and it belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, where it serves as a standalone spacing character rather than a combining mark. In computing, it is often employed in text processing and typesetting to denote stressed syllables or to differentiate meanings between otherwise identical words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00B4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Acute Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "SP" U+0020 Space "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ´ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ´ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00b4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break Before |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |