Latin Small Letter E With Grave
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0232 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter e with grave.
- Alt code
- Alt+0232
- HTML entity
- è
- Unicode
- U+00E8
About this symbol
In ancient Greek the grave accent marked a low pitch. In French è is an open e, as in père, father, and je lève, I lift. In Italian è on its own means “is”, which is why it is one of the most typed accented letters in that language.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
- 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.