É, é (e-acute) is a letter of the Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Luxembourgish, Slovak, and Catalan, Danish, English, French, Galician, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “e”. In English, it may be observed as a pronunciation aid in loanwords (e.g., résumé from French) or romanizations (e.g., Pokémon from Japanese). This also used in Dutch, and Navajo.

É (é) is also used for /ɛ/ with a rising tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system.

In Chinese pinyin é is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “e”.

É is the 5th letter of the Czech alphabet and Slovak alphabet, and represents /ɛː/.

In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish the letter “é” is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and is often written out only when it changes the meaning. See Acute accent for a more detailed description.

Similarly to English, é is respected when writing foreign languages; mainly from French. It is also used to differentiate the article "een" which is equivalent to either "a" or "an" in English and "één" which is the number one. It is also used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics. In the Dutch language some people use "hé" as a greeting, like "hey" or "hi".