Lowercase a acute (á) is the Latin-1 Supplement character at Unicode U+00E1 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE). It is the letter a with an acute accent — common in Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Irish.
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Character á
Unicode U+00E1
Named entity á
Hex entity á
Decimal á
CSS escape \00E1
Capital Á (Á)
Named, hex, decimal, CSS, and a typed character all produce the same glyph: á. Prefer á in HTML source for clarity.
Use á (named), á (hex), á (decimal), or the CSS escape \00E1 in the content property. All render á. Prefer á in HTML source.
U+00E1 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE). Hex E1, decimal 225. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+0080–U+00FF).
Yes. á is the HTML5 named entity for á. The capital form is Á (Á, U+00C1) — names are case-sensitive.
Use it for Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Irish, and other languages that need á, plus proper names and internationalized web content.
HTML entities (á, á, or á) go in markup. The CSS escape \00E1 is used in stylesheets (usually in the content property of ::before/::after). Both render á.
Visually similar, but U+00E1 is a precomposed character. Combining acute is U+0301 after a base letter. Prefer the precomposed á when available.
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Lowercase a acute is Unicode U+00E1 (decimal 225) — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE in Latin-1 Supplement. HTML5 provides á — the most readable form. Capital is Á (Á, U+00C1). Common in Spanish (más), Portuguese, Hungarian, and Irish.
