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Not to be confused with È.
É, é (e-acute) is a letter of the Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Luxembourgish, Slovak, and Catalan, Danish, English, French, Galician, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”. In English, it may be observed as a pronunciation aid in loanwords (e.g., résumé from French) or romanizations (e.g., Pokémon from Japanese). This also used in Dutch, and Navajo.
É (é) is also used for /ɛ/ with a rising tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system.
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Usage in various languages
Chinese
In Chinese pinyin é is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “e”.
Czech and Slovak
É is the 5th letter of the Czech alphabet and Slovak alphabet, and represents /ɛː/.
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish the letter “é” is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and is often written out only when it changes the meaning. See Acute accent for a more detailed description.
Dutch
Similarly to English, é is respected when writing foreign languages; mainly from French. It is also used to differentiate the article "een" which is equivalent to either "a" or "an" in English and "één" which is the number one. It is also used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics. In the Dutch language some people use "hé" as a greeting, like "hey" or "hi".
English
In English it has some uses, mostly in words of French origin such as Résumé, Café and Sauté, and names such as Beyoncé, JonBenét, and Théo. Pokémon, the media franchise owned by Japanese corporation Nintendo, has also come into common use.
French
Main article: French orthographyThe letter é is pronounced /e/, contrasting with è, which is pronounced /ɛ/.
Hungarian
É is the 10th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents /eː/.
Icelandic
É is the 7th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /jɛː/.
Italian
É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents an /e/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it's the last letter of the word. Example: perché (why/because, /perˈke/). Compare with caffè (coffee, /kafˈfɛ/), which has a grave accent.
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.
Portuguese
In Portuguese, the "é" is not considered a letter, but the letter "e" with an accent. It's used to denote an "e" syllable with abnormal stress. It also changes the sound of the letter "e" from the close-mid front unrounded vowel /e/ to the open-mid central unrounded vowel /ɛ/. "É" is also the third-person singular conjugation of the verb "ser" "to be": "ela é bonita" "she is pretty".
Spanish
In Spanish, é is an accented letter, pronounced just like "e" is. Both é and e sound like /e/. The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also to "break up" a diphthong or to distinguish words that would otherwise be spelled alike. See Diacritic and Acute accent for more details.
Scottish Gaelic
É was once used in Scottish, but has now been largely superseded by "è". It can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography.
Vietnamese
In Vietnamese alphabet é is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “e”.
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 or 0233 (on the numeric pad of the keyboard): alt + 130; alt + 0233. Windows users can type "É" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 144 or 0201.
On US International and UK English keyboard layouts users can more simply access the acute accent letter "É" by holding down the "AltGR" key whilst typing the "E" key on the keyboard. This method can also be applied to many other acute accented letters which do not appear on the standard US 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 to get é.
In X Window using a compose key, a user can press the compose key followed by ' (apostrophe) and e (in either order) to get é.
On a standard Android OS keyboard, hold the e key until the special characters appear then slide to the right and release when é is highlighted.
The HTML character entity reference for é is é.
On an iDevice, you can press ALT + E to get é.
See also
External links
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