U+00E0 "à" Latin Small Letter A with Grave Unicode Character
U+00E0 "à" Latin Small Letter A with Grave is a precomposed letter used in several Romance languages, most notably in Italian and French, where it indicates a specific pronunciation or grammatical function; in Italian, it often marks a stressed final syllable, while in French it distinguishes homophones such as "à" (meaning "to" or "at") from "a" (meaning "has"). This character is composed of the base Latin letter "a" combined with a grave accent diacritic and can be represented in Unicode as either the single code point U+00E0 or as a sequence of "a" (U+0061) followed by a combining grave accent (U+0300). Its presence in digital text requires proper encoding and font support to display correctly across different platforms and applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00E0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | à |
| HTML Hex Encoding | à |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00e0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "À" U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "À" U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "À" U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "À" U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A with Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |