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Acute Accent HTML entity ´
´ is the HTML entity for Acute Accent ´ (U+00B4). Copy the decimal ´ and hex ´ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
´- Also written
´- Legacy form
´(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00B4
- Unicode name
- ACUTE ACCENT
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Modifier symbol (Sk)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ´Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ´Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ´Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\B4";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00B4"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00b4"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{ACUTE ACCENT}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%B4Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 B42 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00B41 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The acute accent on its own as a spacing character. It is not an apostrophe and not a letter with an accent; for é use the letter's name, and for an apostrophe use ’.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form ´ without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).