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Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Kazakh, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a. It is sometimes confused with à; e.g. '5 apples á $1', which is more commonly written as '5 apples à $1' (meaning '5 apples at 1 dollar each').
- 1Usage in various languages
ALT Codes for Foreign Language Letters with Accents. Welcome to Useful Shortcuts, THE Alt Code resource! If you are already familiar with using alt codes, simply select the alt code category you need from the table below. Accent marks, formally called diacritical marks, are extra marks that appear above and below individual letters. Their usual purpose is to influence pronunciation.
Usage in various languages[edit]
Chinese[edit]
In Chinese pinyin á is the yángpíng tone (陽平/阳平 'high-rising tone') of 'a'.
Dutch[edit]
In Dutch, the Á is used to put emphasis on an 'a', either in a long 'a' form like in háár ('hair'), or in a short form like in kán (the verb 'can').
Irish[edit]
In Irish, á is called a fada ('long a'), pronounced [ɑː] and appears in words such as slán ('goodbye'). It is the only diacritic used in Modern Irish, since the decline of the dot above many letters in the Irish language. Fada is only used on vowel letters i.e. á, é, í, ó, ú. It symbolises a lengthening of the vowel.
Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak[edit]
Á is the 2nd letter of the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages and represents /aː/.
Faroese[edit]
Á is the 2nd letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ɔ/ or /ɔaː/.
Icelandic[edit]
Á is the second letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /au̯/ (as in 'ow').
Kazakh[edit]
Á is the second letter of the Kazakh Latin alphabet and represents /æ/. Its Cyrillic form is Ә.
Portuguese[edit]
In Portuguese, á is used to mark a stressed /a/ in words whose stressed syllable is in an abnormal location within the word, as in lá (there) and rápido (rapid, fast). If the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Á /a/ contrasts with â, pronounced /ɐ/.
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Á was once used in Scottish, but has now been largely superseded by à. It can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography.
Spanish[edit]
In Spanish, á is an accented letter, pronounced just the way a is. Both á and a sound like /a/. The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to 'break up' a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong. See Diacritic and Acute accent for more details.
Vietnamese[edit]
In the Vietnamese alphabet, á is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of a.
Welsh[edit]
In Welsh, word stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, but one way of indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is through the use of the acute accent. The acute accent on a is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for example, casáu[kaˈsaɨ̯, kaˈsai̯ ] 'to hate', caniatáu[kanjaˈtaɨ̯, kanjaˈtai̯] 'to allow', carafán[karaˈvan] 'caravan'.
Character mappings[edit]
Character | Á | á | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 193 | U+00C1 | 225 | U+00E1 |
UTF-8 | 195 129 | C3 81 | 195 161 | C3 A1 |
Numeric character reference | Á | Á | á | á |
Named character reference | Á | á | ||
EBCDIC family | 101 | 65 | 69 | 45 |
ISO 8859-1/2/3/4/9/10/14/15/16 | 193 | C1 | 225 | E1 |
See also[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Á&oldid=934614551'
International Keyboard Codes | Windows Character Map | Mac Accent Codes
This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. In order to use these codes, your computer should have a separate numeric keypad on the right. If it does not, then another method of inputting accents is recommended.
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For information on how to type the codes, please read the detailed instructions.
- Letters with Accents – (e.g.ó, ò, ñ)
- Other Foreign Characters – (e.g. ç, ¿, ß)
- Currency Symbols – (e.g. ¢, £, ¥)
- Math Symbols – (e.g. ±, °, ÷)
- Other Punctuation – (e.g. &, ©, §)
- Other Accents and Symbols:Character MapOther Page
- Non-Numeric Accent Codes:Activate International KeyboardOther Page
Letters with Accents
This list is focused on Western European languages. See the individual Language pages for additional codes.
Accent | A | E | I | O | U | Y |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grave Capital | À 0192 | È 0200 | Ì 0204 | Ò 0210 | Ù 0217 | -- |
Grave Lower Case | à 0224 | è 0232 | ì 0236 | ò 0242 | ù 0249 | -- |
Acute Capital | Á 0193 | É 0201 | Í 0205 | Ó 0211 | Ú 0218 | Ý 0221 |
Acute Lower Case | á 0225 | é 0233 | í 0237 | ó 0243 | ú 0250 | ý 0253 |
Circumflex Capital | Â 0194 | Ê 0202 | Î 0206 | Ô 0212 | Û 0219 | -- |
Circumflex Lower Case | â 0226 | ê 0234 | î 0238 | ô 0244 | û 0251 | -- |
Tilde Capital | Ã 0195 | -- | Ñ 0209 | Õ 0213 | — | -- |
Tilde Lower Case | ã 0227 | -- | ñ 0241 | õ 0245 | — | -- |
Umlaut Capital | Ä 0196 | Ë 0203 | Ï 0207 | Ö 0214 | Ü 0220 | Ÿ 0159 |
Umlaut Lower Case | ä 0228 | ë 0235 | ï 0239 | ö 0246 | ü 0252 | ÿ 0255 |
Example
To input the acute a á (0225), hold down the ALT key, type 0225 on the numeric keypad, then release the ALT key.
If you are having problems inputting these codes, please review the instructions for using the codes at the bottom of this Web page.
Additional Codes
See the Specific Language Page for additional codes for accented characters. Note that codes may only work in Microsoft Office.
Other Foreign Characters
SYMBOL | NAME | CODE NUMBER |
---|---|---|
¡ | Upside-down exclamation mark | 0161 |
¿ | Upside-down question mark | 0191 |
Ç, ç | French C cedille (caps/lowecase) | 0199 0231 |
Œ,œ | O-E ligature (caps/lowecase) | 0140 0156 |
ß | German Sharp/Double S | 0223 |
º, ª | Masculine Ordinal Number (Span/Ital/Portuguese) Feminine Ordinal Number | 0186 0170 |
Ø,ø | Nordic O slash (caps/lowecase) | 0216 0248 |
Å,å | Nordic A ring (caps/lowecase), Angstrom sign | 0197 0229 |
Æ, æ | A-E ligature (caps/lowecase) | 0198 0230 |
Þ, þ | Icelandic/Old English Thorn (caps/lowecase) See other Old English Characters | 0222 0254 |
Ð, ð | Icelandic/Old English Eth (caps/lowecase) | 0208 0240 |
« » | Spanish/French angle quotation marks | 0171 0187 |
‹ › | Spanish/French angle single quotation marks | 0139 0155 |
Š š | Czech S hachek (S Caron) (caps/lowercase) See other Czech Characters | 0138 0154 |
Ž ž | Czech Z hachek (Z Caron) (caps/lowercase) | 0142 0158 |
Currency Symbols
SYMBOL | NAME | CODE NUMBER |
---|---|---|
¢ | Cent sign | 0162 |
£ | British Pound | 0163 |
€ | Euro currency | 0128 |
¥ | Japanese Yen | 0165 |
ƒ | Dutch Florin | 0131 |
¤ | Generic currency symbol | 0164 |
Math Symbols
SYMBOL | NAME | CODE NUMBER |
---|---|---|
÷ | Division sign | 0247 |
° | Degree symbol | 0176 |
¬ | Not symbol | 0172 |
± | Plus/minus | 0177 |
µ | Micro | 0181 |
‰ | Per Mille (1/1000th) | 0137 |
Fractions
These codes produce fractions which are spaced on one line.
SYMBOL | NAME | CODE NUMBER |
---|---|---|
¼ | Fraction 1/4 | 0188 |
½ | Fraction 1/2 | 0189 |
¾ | Fraction 3/4 | 0190 |
Superscript and Subscript
Check these references for other methods to implement superscript/subscript and extra fractions
Additional Math Codes
See the Unicode Math Chart for additional codes for math symbols. Note that they only work in Microsoft Office and that you should use the non-Hex code. For instance an entry ∛ for the cube root symbol (∛) would correspond to ALT+8731 in Word.
Other Punctuation
These incude copyright symbols and special section marks.
SYMBOL | NAME | CODE NUMBER |
---|---|---|
© | Copyright symbol | 0169 |
® | Registered symbol | 0174 |
™ | Trademark | 0153 |
• | List Dot | 0149 |
§ | Section Symbol | 0167 |
† | Dagger | 0134 |
‡ | Double Dagger | 0135 |
– | en-dash | 0150 |
-- | em-dash | 0151 |
¶ | Paragraph Symbol (Pilcrow) | 0182 |
Using the Codes
Windows assigns a numeric code to different accented letters, other foreign characters and special mathematical symbols. For instance the code for lower case á is 0225, and the code for capital Á is 0193. The ALT key input is used to manually insert these letters and symbols by calling the numeric code assigned to them.
To Use the Codes
- Place your cursor in the location where you wish to insert a special character.
- Activate the numeric key pad on the right of the keyboard by pressing Num Lock (upper right of keyboard). The Num Lock light on the keyboard will indicate that the numeric key pad is on.
NOTE: You must use the numeric key pad; if you use the number keys on the top of the keyboard, the characters will not appear. If you are on a laptop or computer without a separate numeric keypad one of the other methods is recommended. - While pressing down the ALT key, type the four-digit code on the numeric key pad at the right edge of the keyboard. The codes are 'case sensitive.' For instance, the code for lower-case á is ALT+0225, but capital Á is ALT+0193.
NOTE: If you have the International keyboard activated, you will only be able to input codes with the ALT key on the left side of the keyboard. - Release the ALT key. The character will appear when the ALT key is released.
NOTE: You must include the initial zero in the code. For example to insert á(0225) you must type ALT+0225, NOT ALT+225.