Latin Small Letter E With Acute
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0233 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter e with acute.
- Alt code
- Alt+0233
- HTML entity
- é
- Unicode
- U+00E9
About this symbol
In ancient Greek the acute accent marked a syllable spoken at a high pitch. French took it up in 1530, when the royal printer Geoffroy Tory used it, and it now marks the closed e of words such as café and été, summer.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Accented Latin Letters chart for related characters.