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Combining Grave Accent U+0301 ́: 769: Combining Acute Accent U+0302 ̂: 770: Combining Circumflex Accent U+0303 ̃: 771: Combining Tilde U+0304 ̄: 772: Combining Macron U+0305 ̅: 773: Combining Overline U+0306 ̆: 774: Combining Breve U+0307 ̇: 775: Combining Dot Above U+0308 ̈: 776: Combining Diaeresis U+0309 ̉: 777: Combining Hook Above
The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous (rébel vs. rebél) or nonstandard for metrical reasons (caléndar); the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced (warnèd, parlìament).
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 0418 0300: 045D: ѝ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 0438 0300: Used mostly in Bulgarian and Macedonian. Not considered a separate letter, but merely the letter И with a grave accent. 040E: Ў: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U 0423 0306: 045E: ў: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U 0443 0306
The grave (accent grave) marks the sound /ɛ/ when over an e, as in père ("father") or is used to distinguish words that are otherwise homographs such as a/à ("has"/"to") or ou/où ("or"/"where"). The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star").
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Modifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CB xˋ ˋ Modifier Letter Grave Accent U+02CC xˌ ˌ Modifier Letter Low Vertical Line U+02CD xˍ ˍ Modifier Letter Low Macron U+02CE xˎ ˎ Modifier Letter Low Grave Accent U+02CF xˏ ˏ Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent U+02D0 xː ː Modifier Letter Triangular Colon U+02D1 xˑ ˑ
The acute accent (sometimes called accento chiuso, "closed accent" in Italian) is compulsory only in words of more than one syllable stressed on their final vowel (and a few other words). Words ending in stressed -o are never marked with an acute accent ( ó ), but with a grave accent ( ò ).
Grave on à and acute on í ú simply indicate that the vowels are stressed. Thus, the acute is used on close or close-mid vowels, and the grave on open or open-mid vowels. [19] In Filipino orthography (which also applies to other Philippine languages), an acute accent is used to distinguish similar words with distinct definitions. The position ...