U with Accent (ùúû-ÙÚÛ) | Accented U Capital Lowercase with ALT Code
U with accent letters include ù with a grave accent, ú with an acute accent, û with a circumflex and ü with a diaeresis or umlaut. Tap any accented U below to copy it, in lowercase or uppercase.
To type accented u rather than copy it, use the ALT code beside each character: Alt+0250 gives ú, Alt+0218 gives Ú. Every accented U here also carries its Unicode point, decimal value, hexadecimal value and HTML entity.
U with Accent (ùúû-ÙÚÛ) Copy and Paste: Type Accented u on Keyboard with ALT Code
Every accented U letter with its ALT code, split into lowercase and uppercase so you can go straight to the form you need. Tap a tile to copy that character to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac.
A leading zero matters more than it looks: Alt+0250 and its siblings address the Windows ANSI set and behave the same in every application, while the same number without that zero is read against the old DOS code page and can return a different symbol. Anything past 255 is a raw Unicode decimal, and if one of those gives you a black block, use the hexadecimal method below instead.
Small Letter u With Accent: Lowercase Accented u Copy and Paste
All 31 lowercase accented u characters, from the everyday ú to the stacked Vietnamese forms.
Capital Letter U With Accent: Uppercase Accented U Copy and Paste
All 31 uppercase accented U characters, each with its own ALT code, a capital is never the lowercase code with Shift held down.
How to Type Accented u Using ALT Code?
U is one of the few letters whose common accented forms sit inside the Windows ANSI character set, so the four-digit codes beginning with a zero cover most of what you will actually need: Alt+0249 for ù, Alt+0250 for ú, Alt+0251 for û, Alt+0252 for ü, Alt+0217 for Ù, Alt+0218 for Ú. The accented U characters are drawn from Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended Additional and Latin Extended-D, which is what determines whether a plain ALT code can reach them. The remaining 54 accented U characters run past code point 255, up to ꞹ at U+A7B9, and those need the hexadecimal method instead. In everyday writing the accented U people actually reach for is ù, used in French, Italian, Portuguese, and its code is Alt+0249. TYPE 1 handles the first group, TYPE 2 handles everything.
TYPE 1 – How to use ALT codes on a keyboard with and without a dedicated numeric keypad?
The 8 ANSI codes for U behave identically in Word, Outlook, browsers, Notepad and almost anything else that accepts typing, which is what makes them worth memorising if you use one or two of them daily.
Windows reads the number from the numeric keypad only, never from the digit row above the letters. Full keypad and Num Lock instructions are on the main typing guide.
When the result is a black box: A black box means the program mapped your number against its own legacy code page rather than Unicode and found nothing there. For U that happens only with the extended characters, never with the ANSI ones above.
TYPE 2 – How to type letters and symbols using ALT codes with the help of hexadecimal code?
Past Alt+0255 the decimal codes stop being dependable, and for U that covers the majority of the set: 54 characters including the Latin Extended forms and, at the far end, ꞹ.
Unicode is written U+nnnn and the bare hexadecimal is the nnnn part, so U+00FA and 00FA both point at ú. Any value from the technical section below works the same way.
Other ways to type accented U
Hold Shift with the final letter for the capital form.
Press and hold the u key on the on-screen keyboard. The row that appears offers ù ú û ü ũ ū ŭ and similar, and you slide onto the one you want before lifting.
The row offers only the forms your installed keyboard languages cover, so adding a second language in keyboard settings widens what is on offer for u.
HTML: paste the character directly on a UTF-8 page, or use ú or ú.
CSS: content:”\\00FA”
JavaScript and Java: “\\u00FA”
Python: “\\u00fa”
Accented U Technical Information: Unicode, HTML, CSS and JavaScript Codes
Technical information for every accented U letter: Unicode code point, HTML hexadecimal entity, HTML decimal entity, ALT code, CSS escape, and the escape used in JavaScript, Java and C. These are the values you need when the character cannot travel as a pasted glyph, inside a CSS content property, a minified string, a config file with an uncertain encoding, or a database column still set to latin1.
Accented U Letters by Language: French, Spanish, Portuguese and More
Accented U letters by language. French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Czech each use their own small set of accented U characters rather than the whole page, so find the language you are writing in and you have its exact working set, lowercase and uppercase, ready to tap and copy. The note under each set flags the characters that behave differently from how they look.
French accented U letters
French writes ù with a grave accent, û with a circumflex and ü with a diaeresis or umlaut.
Spanish accented U letters
Spanish writes ú with an acute accent and ü with a diaeresis or umlaut.
Portuguese accented U letters
Portuguese writes ù with a grave accent, ú with an acute accent, û with a circumflex and ũ with a tilde.
German accented U letters
German writes ü with a diaeresis or umlaut.
Italian accented U letters
Italian writes ù with a grave accent.
Czech accented U letters
Czech writes ú with an acute accent. Note that the letter ů is a distinct letter from ú and never interchangeable with it.
Slovak accented U letters
Slovak writes ú with an acute accent.
Croatian accented U letters
Croatian writes ȕ with a double grave and ȗ with an inverted breve.
Serbian accented U letters
Serbian writes ȕ with a double grave and ȗ with an inverted breve.
Hungarian accented U letters
Hungarian writes ú with an acute accent and ü with a diaeresis or umlaut. Note that the letter ű is the long form of ü.
Romanian accented U letters
Romanian writes û with a circumflex.
Turkish accented U letters
Turkish writes û with a circumflex and ü with a diaeresis or umlaut.
U with Accent FAQ: ALT Codes, Copy Paste and Unicode
On Windows, hold ALT and type the code on the numeric keypad: Alt+0249 for ù, Alt+0250 for ú, Alt+0251 for û. On a Mac, Option+e followed by u gives ú. On a phone, press and hold the u key and slide onto the variant you want. Or tap any character on this page to copy it.
Alt+0250. Hold ALT, type the digits on the numeric keypad, then release ALT. The number row above the letters will not work. The capital Ú is Alt+0218, a different code entirely.
The marks lean in opposite directions and mean different things. The acute on ú generally marks stress or a long vowel, as in Spanish, Czech and Hungarian. The grave on ù marks a lower pitch or a more open vowel and appears mostly in French, Italian and Catalan. They are not interchangeable, and swapping one for the other is a spelling error.
No. In Czech it is a distinct letter from ú and never interchangeable with it, which means it has its own place in the alphabet and its own entry in a dictionary. Treating it as a variant of u is a common mistake in software written for English-speaking markets, and it puts sorted lists in the wrong order.
French, Spanish, Portuguese and German are the main ones, and the full breakdown with the exact characters each language needs is further up this page. Most writers only ever need four or five of the characters listed here.
The character is correct but the font in use does not contain that glyph, so your device shows a placeholder instead. This happens most often with the rarer forms of U. Switch to a font with wide Latin coverage such as Arial, Calibri, Charis SIL or Noto Serif and the letter will display properly. Nothing is wrong with the text itself, and it will paste correctly elsewhere.
Use the precomposed character, which is what every entry on this page is. A plain u followed by a separate combining mark looks identical on screen but counts as two characters, which breaks search, sorting and spell check, and creates duplicate records in databases and forms.