HTML Entity for Acute Tone Mark (́)
What You'll Learn
How to encode U+0341 (combining acute tone mark) in HTML and CSS. Like other combining marks, it attaches to the preceding base character—write the letter first, then the reference (for example á).
Unicode assigns this code point for tone notation separately from U+0301 combining acute accent used for many European stress marks. For typical Spanish/French é, authors usually use precomposed U+00E9 or e + U+0301; use U+0341 when your orthography or data standard calls for the tone-mark variant. See combining acute accent (U+0301) for comparison.
⚡ Quick Reference — Acute Tone Mark Entity
U+0341Combining Diacritical Marks
́Hexadecimal reference
́Decimal reference
\0341Use in CSS content
Name Value
──────────── ──────────
Unicode U+0341
Hex code ́
HTML code ́
Named entity (none)
CSS code \0341Complete HTML Example
This example attaches U+0341 to the letter a using hex, decimal, and a CSS content string:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#point:after{
content: "a\0341";
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Tone mark (hex on a): á</p>
<p>Tone mark (decimal on a): á</p>
<p id="point">Tone mark (CSS entity): </p>
</body>
</html>🌐 Browser Support
Numeric references for U+0341 work in all modern browsers. Rendering depends on font support for combining diacritical marks:
👀 Live Preview
U+0341 after different bases (glyph shape depends on font and orthography):
🧠 How It Works
Hexadecimal Code
́ references Unicode 0341 in hex. Place it immediately after the base letter (for example á).
Decimal HTML Code
́ is decimal 833, equivalent to U+0341.
CSS Entity (Escape)
\0341 in a CSS string (for example content: "a\0341") emits the same combining sequence in generated content.
Same visual result
With base a, all approaches yield the composed sequence á. Class: combining mark (Mn). No standard named entity.
Use Cases
Where U+0341 is appropriate in web content and data:
Orthographies and linguistic data that encode high or rising tone with U+0341 instead of U+0301.
Transcriptions where tone marks must be distinguished from stress acutes.
Headwords and pronunciation keys that follow a standard using this code point.
Linguistics and language documentation in HTML or EPUB-derived markup.
Pipelines that preserve NFC/NFD and exact code-point distinctions for search or collation.
Fonts and specimens that show the full combining mark inventory.
Tone drills and pickers that insert the mark after a typed base letter.
💡 Best Practices
Do
- Keep the base letter immediately before U+0341 in the DOM
- Document whether your project uses U+0341 vs U+0301 for tone vs stress
- Use UTF-8 and test with the same fonts your readers will see
- Prefer precomposed letters for common European text when that matches your locale rules
- Use
\0341only inside CSS strings, not as raw HTML text
Don’t
- Assume U+0341 and U+0301 are interchangeable in all orthographies
- Emit the mark with no base character
- Mix tone-mark and acute-accent code points at random in one corpus without a spec
- Rely on CSS
contentfor long passages of linguistic text - Forget line-breaking: keep base and mark from splitting across lines awkwardly
Key Takeaways
Two HTML numeric references encode U+0341 after a base letter
́ ́In CSS strings, use \0341 after the base (e.g. "a\0341")
\0341U+0341 is a combining mark (Mn) for tone, distinct from U+0301
No named HTML entity — use numeric references or CSS escapes
Match the code point your orthography or data standard specifies; do not guess
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
́ (hex) or ́ (decimal) after the base letter, e.g. á. In CSS, content: "a\0341" is a common pattern. There is no standard named entity.U+0341 (hex 0341, decimal 833). It is not the same character as U+0301 combining acute accent.\0341 belongs in stylesheet strings. Same code point, different layer.Explore More HTML Entities!
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