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À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic,^[1] Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration. In most languages, it represents the vowel a. This letter is also a letter in Taos to indicate a mid tone.

In accounting or invoices, à abbreviates "at a rate of":『5 apples à $1』(one dollar each). That usage is based upon the French preposition à and has evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett.

À is used in Emilian to represent short stressed [a], e.g. Bolognese dialect sacàtt [saˈkatː] "sack".

The grave accent is used in the French language to differentiate homophones, e.g. la 'the.F.SG' and là 'there'.

À is used in Portuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite article A with the preposition A:

Ele foi à praia.

He went to the beach.

In early orthographic descriptions of Scottish Gaelic from the 18th and 19th centuries, à is the only way to represent a long [a]; later forms of Scottish Gaelic also used the acute accent [á] to indicate a longer [a] sound.^[1]

Microsoft Windows users can type an『à』by pressing Alt+133orAlt+0224 on the numeric pad of the keyboard.『À』can be typed by pressing Alt+0192. On a Mac, you hold ⌥ Option+`, and then let go and type a. Similarly on a GNU/Linux system, where the Compose key can be configured.

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