U+0300 "̀" Combining Grave Accent Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

̀
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+0300 "̀" Combining Grave Accent is a non-spacing diacritical mark used in digital text to modify the pronunciation or meaning of a preceding base character, such as a letter. It belongs to the category of combining characters, meaning it does not occupy its own visual space but instead appears directly above or attached to the character before it, as seen in the French "è" or the Italian "à." This accent often indicates a specific tonal contour in languages like Vietnamese or a shift in vowel quality in various European scripts. In Unicode encoding, it allows for flexible representation of accented letters without requiring a dedicated precomposed character, making it essential for accurate text rendering across diverse writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0300
Name
Combining Grave Accent
Unicode 1.0 Name
Non-Spacing Grave

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
̀
HTML Hex Encoding
̀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCC 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0300
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000300
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0300