Aacute

aacute is the HTML named character reference for the Latin small letter a with acute accent. It represents the character á (Unicode code point U+00E1). In HTML and XML, writing á will display á in the document. The uppercase variant, Á, corresponds to Á (U+00C1).

Encoding and representations: á is encoded in Unicode as U+00E1. In UTF-8, it appears as the two-byte sequence C3 A1. In legacy encodings such as ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1), the character is at code point 0xE1. HTML also supports numeric character references, such as á or á, to produce á.

Usage and compatibility: á is commonly used in web pages to insert the lowercase a with acute without relying on Unicode input. It is one of many named character references for accented Latin letters in HTML. Relying on UTF-8 is generally recommended for modern web documents, but named entities remain widely supported for compatibility.

Linguistic and typographic notes: The acute accent on a indicates a stressed syllable or a distinct vowel quality in many languages that use the Latin alphabet, including Spanish and Portuguese, among others. The same letter appears in words across various languages, and the exact pronunciation can vary by language and dialect.

Related entities and concepts: Other common accented vowels include eacute (é), iacute (í), oacute (ó), uacute (ú), and their uppercase forms. These are part of the broader set of Latin-1 and Unicode characters used to represent extended Latin scripts.

See also: Unicode U+00E1, HTML named character references, and zero-width handling considerations for proper text rendering.