U+00C9 "É" Latin Capital Letter E with Acute Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

É
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Latin Capital Letter E with Acute
Unicode 1.0 Name
Latin Capital Letter E Acute

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