è

Character	è
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00E8

See also Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Letter

è lower case (upper case È)

1. The letter e with a grave accent.

Usage notes

• In French the è is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to é which is pronounced /e/.
• In English the è is used only poetically in order to indicate that it is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to mute. In other words, it indicates a departure, for poetic purposes, from the usual pronunciation of the so-modified e.
• In Italian it is used to indicate a stressed e at the end of a word.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (Letters using grave accent or double grave accent):  Àà  Ȁȁ  Ằằ  Ầầ  Èè  Ȅȅ  Ềề  Ḕḕ  Ìì  Ȉȉ  Ǹǹ  Òò  Ȍȍ  Ờờ  Ṑṑ  Ồồ  Ȑȑ  Ùù  Ȕȕ  Ǜǜ  Ừừ  Ẁẁ  Ỳỳ

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ/, SAMPA: /E/

Verb form

è

1. (third-person singular present tense of essere) (he, she, it) is

   Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

   If it is not true, it is a good story.

Usage notes

• The uppercase form (È) is often written as E', especially in print.

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Romanization

è (form of e4 with diacritic)

1. 偔:
2. 僫:
3. 儍: foolish, silly, an imbecile
4. 卾:
5. 厄: adversity, difficulty, distress
6. 呃: belch; hiccup
7. 呝:
8. 咢: sound; drumming
9. 咹:
10. 哐: syllable
11. 啛:
12. 噩: bad, ill-omened, unlucky
13. 圔:
14. 垩: holy, sacred, sage; simplification of 堊, white earth; daub with white mud
15. 堊: white earth; to daub with white mud
16. 堨: daub
17. 堮: a boundary; a border
18. 岋:
19. 峈:
20. 崿: cliffs
21. 嶭: elevated, lofty
22. 恶: evil, wicked, bad, foul
23. 悪
24. 惡: evil, wicked, mean, bad, foul
25. 愕: startled, alarmed, astonished
26. 戹: In difficulty, distressed
27. 扼: grasp, clutch; choke, strangle
28. 搤: seize
29. 搹:
30. 櫮:
31. 歹: bad, vicious, depraved, wicked, corpse
32. 湂:
33. 琧:
34. 砐:
35. 硆:
36. 胺
37. 腭: palate, roof of mouth
38. 苊: an organic compound
39. 萼: the stem and calyx of a flower; a younger brother
40. 蕚: the calyx of a flower; younger brother
41. 蘀: falling leaves and barks
42. 蚅:
43. 蛤: clam
44. 蝁:
45. 覨:
46. 詻: orders
47. 誒: an exclamation of confirmation
48. 諤: honest speech, straightforward
49. 讍: honest speech
50. 谔: honest speech, straightforward
51. 豟:
52. 貖:
53. 軛: yoke, collar; to restrain
54. 軶:
55. 轭: yoke, collar
56. 遌:
57. 遏: stop, suppress, curb, check; a bar
58. 遻: meet
59. 邐: meandering, winding
60. 鄂: Hubei province; startled
61. 鍔: high, lofty; edge of knife
62. 鑩:
63. 锷
64. 閼: block, obstruct, stop up, conceal
65. 阏: block, obstruct, stop up
66. 阨: in distress; adverse; strategic
67. 阸: distress; difficulty
68. 隘: narrow, confined; a strategic pass
69. 頞: (nose) bridge
70. 顎: jaw
71. 颚: jaw
72. 餓: hungry; greedy for; hunger
73. 餩: hiccough
74. 饿: hungry; greedy for; hunger
75. 鬬: struggle
76. 魥:
77. 鰐: alligator
78. 鱷: crocodile, alligator
79. 鳄: alligator
80. 鶚: osprey, fishhawk
81. 鹗: osprey, fishhawk
82. 齂:
83. 齶: palate, roof of mouth
84. 㓵: (same as 鍔) swords; a double-edged sword

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Neapolitan

Verb

è

1. Third-person singular present indicative of èssere

Alternative forms

• èje
• ène (rare)