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Technical information

SymbolÀ
NameLatin capital letter a with grave
Unicode numberU+00C0
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement5. Letters
DescriptionThe Unicode character À, or U+00C0, is known as the "Latin Capital Letter A with Grave". It is a part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Letter, Uppercase" category. Visually, it is the capital letter A with a grave accent (`) above it. The grave accent is a diacritical mark used in various written languages including French, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, among others. In these languages, the grave accent usually denotes the quality, quantity, or tone of the vowel it marks. For instance, in French, the character À is used as a preposition and pronounced like the vowel in "father". In Italian, it's used to indicate a contraction of "a" with the definite article "la". Overall, the usage and pronunciation of À can vary depending on the particular conventions of a language.

Encoding

HTML EntityÀ
HTML Entity (hex)À
HTML Entity (named)À
URL Escape Code%C3%80
UTF-8 (hex)0xC3 0x80
UTF-8 (binary)1100001110000000
UTF-160x00C0
UTF-320x000000C0

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00C0"
CSS Code\00C0
JavaScript"\u00C0"
Perl\x{00C0}
Python 2u"\u00C0"
Python 3\u00C0
Ruby\u{00C0}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this À in sentence and in bold like this À and in italic like this À.

Font size:

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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#192;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00C0";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References