È

Not to be confused with É.

E with grave
È è
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Language of origin	French
Phonetic usage	[ɛ]
Unicode codepoint	U+00C8, U+00E8
History
Development	È è
Other

"È" is a letter.

• The letter E with a grave accent.
• In English, the letter è is sometimes used in the past tense forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation /ˈblɛsɪd/ BLESS-id rather than /blɛst/ BLEST. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
• In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed". In Romagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
• In French, it always represents a [ɛ] sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
• È means "is" in modern Italian [ɛ], e.g. il cane è piccolo meaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latin ĕst and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunction e meaning "and". È is also used to mark a stressed [ɛ] at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
• È (è) is used in Limburgish for the [ɛ] sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
• È in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk) is used some words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière (career).
• È (è) is also used for an [ɤ] with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China.
• È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).
• È (è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds [ɛː] and [eː] in Scottish 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".

Character information

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

Key strokes

• Microsoft Windows user's computer can type an "è" by pressing Alt+0232 or Alt+138 on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing Alt+0200 or Alt+212.

See also

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