U+00E8 "è" Latin Small Letter E with Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00E8 "è" Latin Small Letter E with Grave is a precomposed character used in several languages, including French, Italian, and Catalan, where it indicates a specific pronunciation, typically an open e sound, or serves a grammatical function such as distinguishing homophones. It is formed by combining the base Latin letter "e" with a grave accent diacritic placed above it, representing a single code point in the Unicode standard rather than a sequence of separate characters. This character is commonly found in words like "très" in French or "caffè" in Italian, and it is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, making it widely supported across digital systems for accurate text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter E with Grave |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter E Grave |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "e" U+0065 Latin Small Letter E "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | è |
| HTML Hex Encoding | è |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00e8 |
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 | "È" U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E with Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "È" U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E with Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "È" U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E with Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "È" U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E 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 |