U+0301 "́" Combining Acute Accent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0301 "́" Combining Acute Accent is a diacritical mark that is designed to be placed above a preceding base character, such as a letter, to modify its pronunciation or meaning. It is commonly used in various languages, including Spanish for stress placement like in the word "café," in French for the letter "e" as "é," and in Greek for the tonos accent. As a combining character, it does not occupy its own space but rather merges with the base glyph, allowing for dynamic typographic stacking in Unicode text. Its widespread use makes it essential for accurate representation of many written languages and linguistic transcription systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0301 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Acute Accent |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Non-Spacing Acute |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ́ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ́ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCC 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0301 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000301 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0301 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Inherited |
| Script Extensions | Cherokee Cyrillic Greek Latin Osage Sunuwar Tai Le Todhri |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |