On Windows, hold Alt and type 0180 on the numeric keypad to insert acute accent.

Alt code
Alt+0180
HTML entity
´
Unicode
U+00B4

About this symbol

´ is the spacing acute accent on its own. On many European keyboards it is a dead key: press it, then a vowel, to type é or á. It is often wrongly used as an apostrophe, but the correct character for that is ’.

Unicode facts

Official name
ACUTE ACCENT
Type
Modifier symbol
Unicode block
Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode group
Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Unicode notes
  • This is a spacing character
Related
` Grave Accent U+0060
ʹ Modifier Letter Prime U+02B9
ˊ Modifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CA
˝ Double Acute Accent U+02DD
◌́ Combining Acute Accent U+0301
΄ Greek Tonos U+0384
´ Greek Oxia U+1FFD
′ Prime U+2032

Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.

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