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U+00B4 · ACUTE ACCENT

Acute Accent

  • CodepointU+00B4
  • NameACUTE ACCENT
  • Decimal180
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySk — Modifier Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00B4 (´) is ACUTE ACCENT, a modifier symbol in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0020 + U+0301 ◌́ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+0301 ◌́. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ´

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 B42 bytes
UTF-1600B41 code unit
UTF-32000000B44 bytes
HTML named&acute;named character reference
HTML named&DiacriticalAcute;named character reference
HTML decimal&#180;
HTML hex&#xB4;
CSS\B4in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00B4
JSON\u00B4
Python\u00B4
Python\N{ACUTE ACCENT}by name
Java / C#\u00B4
C / C++\u00B4universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{B4}
Go\u00B4
Ruby\u00B4
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(180)
URL-encoded%C2%B4percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+0301 ◌́
NFKDU+0020 + U+0301 ◌́
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0027'Apostrophe U+0060`Grave Accent U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BEʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring U+02C8ˈModifier Letter Vertical Line U+02CAˊModifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CBˋModifier Letter Grave Accent U+02F4˴Modifier Letter Middle Grave Accent U+0374ʹGreek Numeral Sign U+0384΄Greek Tonos U+055A՚Armenian Apostrophe U+055D՝Armenian Comma U+05D9יHebrew Letter Yod
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Characters built on ´

U+1FFD´Greek Oxia
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00AE®Registered Sign U+00AF¯Macron U+00B0°Degree Sign U+00B1±Plus-Minus Sign U+00B2²Superscript Two U+00B3³Superscript Three U+00B5µMicro Sign U+00B6Pilcrow Sign U+00B7·Middle Dot U+00B8¸Cedilla U+00B9¹Superscript One U+00BAºMasculine Ordinal Indicator