U+00C9 "É" Latin Capital Letter E with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00C9 "É" Latin Capital Letter E with Acute is a precomposed glyph used in multiple languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Icelandic to represent the vowel sound [e] with a rising accent mark. It appears in words like "café" and "résumé" in English borrowings, and it is distinct from the combining acute accent sequence (E followed by U+0301) though visually identical. This character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and serves both typographic and linguistic purposes, ensuring correct pronunciation and meaning in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter E with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter E Acute |
| 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+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | É |
| HTML Hex Encoding | É |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c9 |
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 | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| Case Folding | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "é" U+00E9 Latin Small Letter E with Acute |
| 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 |