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The grave accent ( ̀) (/ ɡ r eɪ v / GRAYV [1] [2] or / ɡ r ɑː v / GRAHV [1] [2]) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and many other western European languages as well as for a few unusual uses in English.
The letters Ă, Â, Ê, and Ô are found on what would be the number keys 1– 4 on the US English keyboard, with 5– 9 producing the tonal marks (grave accent, hook, tilde, acute accent and dot below, in that order), 0 producing Đ, = producing the đồng sign (₫) when not shifted, and brackets ([]) producing Ư and Ơ. [42]
However, the grave accent (dead key) remains in the primary group to type the characters ù/Ù on an ANSI keyboard, which lacks a key to the left of the Z key. In Figure 2, the rectangles indicate a diacritical mark. The Canadian standard defines three explicit levels of compliance and one implicit level:
It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a Windows keyboard once you’ve got the hang of alt key codes. If you’re using a desktop, your keyboard probably has a number pad off to the right ...
The grave (accent grave) marks the sound /ɛ/ when over an e, as in père ("father") or is used to distinguish words that are otherwise homographs such as a/à ("has"/"to") or ou/où ("or"/"where"). The acute (accent aigu) is only used in "é", modifying the "e" to make the sound /e/, as in étoile ("star").
Several diacritical marks not specific to Cyrillic can be used with Cyrillic text, including: in Combining Diacritical Marks block U+0300–U+036F. U+0301 ́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (as common Cyrillic stress mark). U+0300 ̀ COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT (as stress mark in Bulgarian). U+0303 ̃ COMBINING TILDE (in non Slavic languages)
Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character " Combining Grapheme Joiner ", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.
For example, on some keyboard layouts, the grave accent key ` is a dead key: in this case, striking ` and then A results in à (a with grave accent); ` followed by ⇧ Shift+E results in È (E with grave accent). A grave accent in isolated form can be typed by striking ` and then Space bar.