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Modifier Letter Acute Accent · U+02CB ˋ 715 Modifier Letter Grave Accent U+02CC ˌ 716 Modifier Letter Low Vertical Line U+02CD ˍ 717 Modifier Letter Low Macron U+02CE ˎ 718 Modifier Letter Low Grave Accent U+02CF ˏ 719 Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent U+02D0 ː 720 Modifier Letter Triangular Colon U+02D1 ˑ 721
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).
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CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IZHITSA WITH DOUBLE GRAVE ACCENT 0474 030F: 0477: ѷ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IZHITSA WITH DOUBLE GRAVE ACCENT 0475 030F: 0478: Ѹ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UK 0479: ѹ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UK May be rendered as either monograph or digraph form: For the monograph form, the preferred characters are A64A and A64B (Ꙋ and ꙋ)
On a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system, many special characters that have decimal equivalent codepoint numbers below 256 can be typed in by using the keyboard's Alt+decimal equivalent code numbers keys. For example, the character é (Small e with acute accent, HTML entity code é) can be obtained by pressing Alt+1 3 0.
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent. The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case [ a ] ) base letter, by overtyping it atop that letter. [ 1 ] On early computer systems, however, this physical dead key +overtype function was rarely supported, being functionally replaced by precomposed ...
The acute accent (/ ə ˈ k j uː t /), ́, is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.