◌̀ U+0300,̀ COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT ←˿ [U+02FF] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌́ → [U+0301]

Character variations

◌̀ U+0340,̀ COMBINING GRAVE TONE MARK ←◌̿ [U+033F] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌́ → [U+0341]

◌̀

1. (IPA) a lowtone.
2. (IPA, obsolete) a fallingtone, or, in contrast to low⟨◌̖⟩, a high falling tone.
3. (UPA) a slightly long vowel or consonant; between unmarked length and half-long⟨◌͐⟩.
4. (Lithuanian dialectology)Marks astressed short syllable.

The Unicode code point U+0340 (COMBINING GRAVE TONE MARK) iscanonically equivalent to U+0300 (COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT). It was intended for Vietnamese and later deprecated.

Compareacute accent:⟨◌́⟩.

[1]:˩

• Grave accent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

◌̀

1. (poetic)Used to indicate that the suffix-ed is pronounced with a schwa:lookèd (IPA/ˈlʊkəd/); past-tenselearned vs adjectivelearnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
2. (lexicography)Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use◌́ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
3. Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated:à la carte,crème brûlée,pièce de résistance,pied-à-terre,tête-à-tête,vis-à-vis.
4. (rare)Anaffectation in some proper names: e.g.Ketèlbey.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theGreek script, calledβαρεῖα(bareîa,“heavy”) in Ancient Greek, and found onᾺ(À)/ὰ(à),Ὲ(È)/ὲ(è),Ὴ(Ḕ)/ὴ(ḕ),Ὶ(Ì)/ὶ(ì),Ὸ(Ò)/ὸ(ò),Ὺ(Ù)/ὺ(ù) andῺ(Ṑ)/ὼ(ṑ). It is also known by its Latin nameaccentus gravis or the English namegrave accent. It was used to indicate the presence of the accent on the last syllable of a word when immediately followed by another stressed word.

• (Greek-script letters)Α α,Β β,Γ γ,Δ δ,Ε ε,Ζ ζ,Η η,Θ θ,Ι ι,Κ κ,Λ λ,Μ μ,Ν ν,Ξ ξ,Ο ο,Π π,Ρ ρ,Σ σ ς,Τ τ,Υ υ,Φ φ,Χ χ,Ψ ψ,Ω ω
• (non-Classical letters)Ϝ(W)ϝ(w),Ͷͷ,Ͱ(H)ͱ(h),Ϻ(S)ϻ(s),Ϟϟ,Ϙ(Q)ϙ(q),Ͳ(S)ͳ(s)
• (punctuation)·;
• (diacritics)᾿῾◌́◌̀῀¨

◌̀

1. (lexicography)Used to indicate a stressed syllable, placed over a vowel letter.
2. Used to disambiguate the pronounѝ(ì) from the conjunctionи(i,“and”).

The grave accent sees significant preference over the´ for indicating stress in Bulgarian sources.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledaccent greu(“grave accent”) in Catalan, and found onÀ/à, È/è and Ò/ò.

• The grave accent indicates that anopen-mid oropen vowel is pronouncedstressed. Stressedclose-mid orclose vowels are indicated with an acute accent´.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledaccent grave(“grave accent”) in Dutch, and found onÀ/à and È/è.

The grave accent is used mostly in French loanwords, and serves primarily to distinguish the rare vowel/ɛː/ from the more usual/eː/.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledaccent grave(“grave accent”) in French, and found onÀ/à, È/è and Ù/ù.
   • 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, inThe Guardian‎^[1] (in English), archived fromthe original on4 April 2025:

     California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

◌̀

1. Represents thethird tone of Taiwanese Hokkien inPe̍h-ōe-jī.
2. Represents thesecond tone of Taiwanese Hokkien inTaiwanese Phonetic Symbols.

◌̀

1. marks unpredictable stress assignment. Outside lexicography, it may be limited to final syllables.
2. distinguishes stressed/ɛ ɔ/ from/e o/.

• accento grave

◌̀

1. (now uncommon)Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledaccentus gravis (“grave accent”) in Latin, and found onà, è, ò.

• ´,^

• Institutiones linguae latinae et graecae pro infima grammatices ad normam Emmanuelis Alvari et Jacobi Gretseri Societatis Jesu, in usum scholarum Provinciae S. J. ad Rhenum superiorem nova methodo adornatae. Editio quarta, Augusta Vindelicorum, 1779, p. 212 inErster Anhang. De orthographia.:

  (`) (´) Accentus gravis & acútus. Gravis (`) wird zum Besten der Lernenden nicht unrecht gebraucht bey den Adverbiis, um sie von anderen Partibus Orationis zu unterscheiden, als: Eò, quò, tantò, doctè, &c. [...] (Nota. Wie die Interpunctiones recht zu gebrauchen seyen, wird in der Lehr de Periŏdis erörtert.

• Thomae Ruddimanni institutiones grammaticae latinae. Curante Godofredo Stallbaum. Pars secunda syntaxin continens, Lipsia, 1823, p. 39 of theAppendix. Grammaticae latinae institutionum pars tertia ex compendio Ruddimanni repetita:

  Toni sive Accentus sunt tres,Acutus,Gravis, etCircumflexus. [...] Gravis est qui syllabam gravat, seu deprimit; ac signatur lineola obliqua a sinistra in dextram ascendente, hoc modo [`]: ut,doctè. [...]

• Allen Fisk,Adam's Latin Grammar; simplified, by Means of an Introduction: Designed to facilitate the Study of Latin Grammar, [...]. Fifth Edition, from the second Edition, revised and corrected, New-York, 1830, p. 182:

  "There are three accents [...] 2. Thegrave or base accent depresses the voice, or keeps it in its natural tone; and is thus marked [`]; as,doctè. This accent properly belongs to all syllables which have no other accent. [...]The accents are [..] seldom marked in Latin books, unless for the sake of distinction, as in these adverbs,aliquò, continuò, doctè, unà, &c. to distinguish them from certain cases of adjectives, which are spelt in the same way. [...]

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledacénto grâve(“grave accent”) in Ligurian, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.
   1. Used to denote stressed/a/,/ɛ/,/i/,/y/
   2. Used to denote stressed or unstressed/ɔ/

• ´
• ^

◌̀

1. (linguistics) Adiacritical mark, calledнадреден знак(nadreden znak), found onЀ/ѐ andЍ/ѝ, and used to disambiguate theне(ne) fromнѐ(nè),се(se) fromсѐ(sè), andи(i) fromѝ(ì).

• ◌́
• ’

• “Надреден знак”, inПравопис на македонскиот јазик (Pravopis na makedonskiot jazik) [Orthography of the Macedonian language]‎^[2] (in Macedonian), 2nd edition, Skopje: Institute of Macedonian language "Krste Misirkov" – Skopje,2017, page141

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, called重音符(zhòngyīnfú,“grave tone mark”) in Mandarin, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ù/ù and Ǜ/ǜ,representing the去聲 /去声(qùshēng,“departing tone”), also known as the第四聲 /第四声(“fourth tone”), inPinyin.

Not to be confused with◌ˋ, which represents the fourth tone in the MandarinZhuyin script.

• ◌̄(first tone)
• ◌́(second tone)
• ◌̌(third tone)
• ꞏ◌(fifth tone)

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledacento grave(“grave accent”) in Portuguese, and found onÀ/à.

• Used in a number ofcontractions:a +a =à;a +aquele =àquele (variations include:àquela,àqueles,àquelas,àquilo).
• Additionally, the same diacritical mark has had other uses in the past:
• Replaces the acute accent in derivatives where the primary stress becomes the secondary stress:café →cafèzinho (nowcafezinho).
• Replaces the acute accent in certain other words:serà (nowserá).

◌̀

1. (International Standard)Adiacritical mark of theLatin script in Romani, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.

The grave accent indicates stress that does not fall on the last syllable. It does not appear on the syllable before the lettersq,ç, andθ.

• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor,Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher,→ISBN, page499
• “Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, inR.E.D-RROM‎^[3], 27 September 2021 (last accessed)
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018),ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published2021,→ISBN,→OCLC, page17,

◌̀

1. (lexicography) Adiacritical mark, both in the Cyrillic and Latin script, used to denote a short-rising accent. Not used in everyday writing. Can be used on vowels and thesyllabic R:
   • Cyrillic: А̀а̀ Ѐѐ Ѝѝ О̀о̀ У̀у̀ Р̀р̀
   • Latin: Àà Èè Ìì Òò Ùù R̀r̀

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledpaiwa(“grave accent”) in Tagalog, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ë̀/ë̀, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.

• Used to indicate aglottal stop at the end of the letter.
• The diacritic is primarily used in formal texts to distinguish meaning through pronunciation. In everyday writing, however, it is not commonly used.
• In some older spelling systems, the diacritic once indicated secondary stress, but this usage eventually became obsolete.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calleddấu huyền(“hanging mark”) in Vietnamese, and found onÀ/à, Ằ/ằ, Ầ/ầ, È/è, Ề/ề, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ồ/ồ, Ờ/ờ, Ù/ù, Ừ/ừ and Ỳ/ỳ.Used to indicate low-falling, possibly breathy tone.

In Vietnamese handwriting and signmaking, this tone mark may be written as a horizontal line, like amacron (which does not exist in Vietnamese), and the letterI/i retains itstittle.

In earlier versions ofUnicode,̀ was used to represent this tone mark.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledacen ddisgynedig(“descended accent”) in Welsh, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ù/ù, Ẁ/ẁ and Ỳ/ỳ.

◌̀

1. Adiacritical mark of theLatin script, calledàmì ohùn ìsàlẹ̀(“low-tone mark”) in Yoruba, and found onÀ/à, È/è, Ẹ̀/ẹ̀, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ọ̀/ọ̀, Ù/ù, Ǹ/ǹ and M̀/m̀.Used to indicate low-tone, or falling-tone when after◌́

• dò(“syllable used to represent the low tone”)
• ìró ohùn ìsàlẹ̀(“low tone”)

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