È

"È" is a letter.
E with grave
The letter E with a grave accent.
In English, the letter è is sometimes used in the past tense
forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable
should be pronounced separately. For example, blessèd
Èè
would indicate the pronunciation /ˈblɛsɪd/ BLESS-id rather than
/blɛst/ BLEST. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed". In
Romagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
In French, it always represents a [ɛ] sound of letter e when
this is at the end of a syllable.
È means "is" in modern Italian [ɛ], e.g. il cane è piccolo
meaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latin ĕst and is Usage
accented to distinguish it from the conjunction e meaning Writing system Latin script
"and". È is also used to mark a stressed [ɛ] at the end of a
word only, as in caffè. Language of French
È (è) is used in Limburgish for the [ɛ] sound, like in the word origin
'Sjtèl'. Phonetic usage [ɛ]
È in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk) is used some Unicode U+00C8, U+00E8
words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière (career). codepoint
È (è) is also used for an [ɤ] with a falling tone in pinyin, the
Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. The History
word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for Development
the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China. Èè
È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the Other
letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).
È (è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds [ɛː] and [eː] in Scottish Gaelic.
È (è) is used in Vietnamese to represent the letter "E" with the dấu huyền tone. It can also
combine with "Ê" to form "Ề".
 Character information

Preview È è
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE

Encodings decimal hex decimal hex

Unicode 200 U+00C8 232 U+00E8
UTF-8 195 136 C3 88 195 168 C3 A8
Numeric character reference È È è è
Named character reference È è
EBCDIC family 116 74 84 54
ISO 8859-1/3/9/14/15/16 200 C8 232 E8

Key strokes
Microsoft Windows user's computer can type an "è" by pressing Alt + 0 2 3 2 or Alt + 1 3 8
on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing Alt + 0 2 0 0 or Alt + 2 1 2 .

See also
Ye with grave, a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.

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