U+00C8 "È" Latin Capital Letter E with Grave Unicode Character

U+00C8 "È" Latin Capital Letter E with Grave is a precomposed character in the Latin script that represents the letter E combined with a grave accent, a diacritical mark indicating a specific pronunciation, often used in languages such as French, Italian, and Catalan to denote a distinct vowel sound or stress, as in the French word "très" (very).

General Properties

Code Point	U+00C8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter E with Grave
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Capital Letter E Grave
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"E" U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	È
HTML Hex Encoding	È
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC3 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00C8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00c8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
Lowercase Code Point	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
Simple Case Folding	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
Case Folding	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
NFKC Simple Casefold	"è" U+00E8 Latin Small Letter E with Grave
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper