À , à ( A with gravel ) - an extended Latin letter used in French , Portuguese , Vietnamese , Pinyin and a number of other alphabets [ what? ] .
| Latin letter A with gravel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Àà | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | À : latin capital letter a with grave à : latin small letter a with grave | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode | À : U + 00C0 à : U + 00E0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| HTML code | À : À or Àà : à or à | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utf-16 | À : 0xC0 à : 0xE0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Url | À :% C3% 80 à :% C3% A0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mnemonics | À : Àà : à | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Use
In Italian and Catalan , it stands for percussion A. In a number of languages it is used to distinguish homophones . For example, in French à - the preposition "k", a - the third person singular of the present tense of the verb "have"; in Catalan, mà is “hand”, ma is the pronoun “mine”.
In Vietnamese Latin and Pinyin, it is used to denote a descending tone .
See also
- List of latin letters
- Diacritical marks