È

Not to be confused withÉ.

E with grave
È è
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Language of origin	French
Sound values	[ɛ]
InUnicode	U+00C8, U+00E8
History
Development	È è
Other

È,è(e-grave) is a letter of theLatin Alpha bet.InEnglish,èis formed with an addition of agrave accentonto the letterEand is sometimes used in the past tense or past participle forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example,bles sắc dwould indicate the pronunciation/ˈblɛsɪd/BLESS-idrather than/blɛst/BLEST.It also occurs inloanwordssuch as Italiancaffè.

In other languages

• InEmilian,è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g.lèt[lɛːt] "bed".
• InFrench,it always represents a[ɛ]sound of letterewhen this is at the end of a syllable.
• Èmeans "is" in modernItalian[ɛ],e.g.il cane è piccolomeaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latinĕstand is accented to distinguish it from the conjunctionemeaning "and".Èis also used to mark a stressed[ɛ]at the end of a word only, as incaffè.
• È(è) is used in Limburgish for the[ɛ]sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
• ÈinNorwegian(bothBokmålandNynorsk) is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as inkarrière(career).
• È(è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letteryewith grave (Ѐ,ѐ).
• InRomagnol,it represents [ɛ], e.g.vècc'[vɛtʃː] "old men".
• È(è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds[ɛː]and[eː]inScottish 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".
• È(è) is also used for an[ɤ]with afalling toneinpinyin,theChinese languageroman- Alpha bet transcription system. The word ngạc, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for theHubeiprovinceof thePeople's Republic of China.

Unicode

Character information

Preview	È		è
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	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
EBCDICfamily	116	74	84	54
ISO 8859-1/3/9/14/15/16	200	C8	232	E8

Key strokes

• Microsoft Windowsusers can type an "è" by pressingAlt+0232orAlt+138on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressingAlt+0200orAlt+212.Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default isRight Alt) by pressingComposeE`in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressingCompose⇧ Shift+E`in sequence.

See also

• Ye with grave,a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.