À
À, à is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, 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". 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.
Usage in various languages
Emilian-Romagnol
À is used in Emilian to represent short stressed , e.g. Bolognese dialect sacàtt "sack".French
The grave accent is used in the French language to differentiate homophones, e.g. and .Portuguese
À is used in Portuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite article a with the preposition a or the demonstrative aquele and its inflections and derivations :À is always unstressed, as opposed to Á and Â, which are always stressed.