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È or è can be

• The letter E with a grave accent.
• The letter è is sometimes used in the past tense forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example blessèd would indicate the pronunciation bless-ed rather than blest.
• "È" means "is" in modern Italian [ɛ], e.g. "il cane è piccolo" meaning the dog is small. It is derived from Latin "est" and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunction "e" meaning "and".
• 鄂, or È is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China.
• È (è) is also used for an [ɤ] with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system.

See also

• Ye with grave, a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph