Acute Accent
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0180 on the numeric keypad to insert acute accent.
- Alt code
- Alt+0180
- HTML entity
- ´
- Unicode
- U+00B4
About this symbol
´ is the spacing acute accent on its own. On many European keyboards it is a dead key: press it, then a vowel, to type é or á. It is often wrongly used as an apostrophe, but the correct character for that is ’.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ACUTE ACCENT
- Type
- Modifier symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.