À

À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol,

French, Galician, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese,
Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages
consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a
grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration. In most
languages, it represents the vowel a. This letter is also a letter in
Taos to indicate a mid tone.

When denoting quantity, à means "each": "5 apples à $1" (one

Latin letter A with grave
dollar each). That usage is based upon the French preposition à
and has evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a
surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett.

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Usage in various languages
Emilian-Romagnol
French
Portuguese
Character mappings

Usage in various languages

Emilian-Romagnol

À is used in Emilian to represent short stressed [a], e.g. Bolognese dialect sacàtt [saˈkatː] "sack".

French

À is used in the French language to differentiate homophones, e.g. the third person conjugation of a "
[he/she/it] has" and à "at, in, and to".

Portuguese

À is used in Portuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite article A with the
preposition A:

Ele foi à praia.

He went to the beach.
Character mappings
Character information

Preview À à
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE

Encodings decimal hex decimal hex

Unicode 192 U+00C0 224 U+00E0
UTF-8 195 128 C3 80 195 160 C3 A0
Numeric character reference À À à à
Named character reference À à
ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 192 C0 224 E0

Microsoft Windows users can type an "à" by pressing Alt + 1 3 3 or Alt + 0 2 2 4 on the numeric
pad of the keyboard. "À" can be typed by pressing Alt + 0 1 9 2 . On a Mac, you hold ⌥ Option + ` ,
and then let go and type a .

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