É

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É, é (e-acute) is a letter of Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Czech, Slovak, and Uyghur language. This letter also appears in Catalan, French, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”.

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[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Icelandic

É is the 7th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /jɛː/.

[edit] Hungarian

É is the 10th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents /eː/.

[edit] Czech and Slovak

É is the 12th letter of the Czech alphabet and Slovak alphabet, and represents /ɛː/.

[edit] Kashubian

É is the 8th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /ɛ/. It also represents [ej] in some dialects, and represents [i]/[ɨ] in area between Puck and Kartuzy.

[edit] Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet é is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “e”.

[edit] Chinese

In Chinese pinyin é is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “e”.

[edit] Uyghur

In Latin-Script Uyghur alphabet (Uyghur Latin Yéziqi̡, ULY), é represents /e/.

[edit] English

In English it has some uses, mostly in words of French origin such as Café and Sauté, and names such as Beyoncé and Théo. Pokémon, the media franchise owned by Japanese corporation Nintendo has also come into common use.

[edit] French

“É”, the upper-case version of “é”, is rarely used in French due to typographical reasons. “E” is used in its place. Also, when the accented “é” is unavailable “E” is used to represent it. For example “ÉCOLE” becomes "ECOLE" and “créée” becomes “crEEe”.

[edit] Character mappings

Charset Unicode ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule É U+00C9 C9
Minuscule é U+00E9 E9

Windows users can type an "é" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 130, 0233, or 642 (on the numeric pad of the keyboard): alt + 130; alt + 0233; alt + 642. Windows users can type "É" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing 0201.

Windows users can now more simply access the acute accent letter 'É' by holding down the "AltGR" key whilst typing the 'E' key on the keypad. This method can also be applied to many other accented letters which do not appear on the standard English keyboard layout.

In Microsoft Word, a user can press Ctrl + ' (apostrophe), then E for "é".

On Mac OS X a user can hold option and press e to get ´, then press e and they will get é.

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The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter E with diacritics
Letters using acute accent

history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters