Every accented Portuguese character on one page — acute, grave, circumflex, and tilde vowels in both cases, plus the cedilha ç and the ordinal indicators º and ª. Click any character to copy it, whether you write Brazilian or European Portuguese.
Acute accents mark stressed open vowels, circumflexes mark stressed closed vowels, tildes mark nasal vowels, and the grave à appears only in the contraction crase.
Portuguese keeps accents on capital letters — Álvaro, Ângela, África — so the uppercase forms are just as necessary as the lowercase ones.
The cedilha ç makes a soft s sound before a, o, u (maçã, açúcar). The ordinal indicators º and ª abbreviate ordinal numbers: 1º (primeiro), 2ª (segunda).
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Portuguese decorates its five vowels with four different marks, each doing a distinct job. The acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú) marks a stressed, open vowel; the circumflex (â, ê, ô) marks a stressed, closed one; and the tilde (ã, õ) marks nasal vowels — the signature Portuguese sound heard in São Paulo, coração, and ações. The grave accent exists only on à and signals crase, the contraction of the preposition a with a following article: vou à praia. The cedilha ç appears before a, o, and u — maçã, moço, açúcar — and never at the start of a word.
Brazilian and European Portuguese share this exact character set, with small differences in where the accents land. Since the 1990 Orthographic Agreement unified most spelling, the visible split is largely circumflex versus acute on certain stressed vowels: Brazil writes Antônio and gênio where Portugal writes António and génio. One character disappeared entirely: the trema (ü), once used in Brazil in words like lingüiça, was abolished by the agreement, so modern Portuguese in every country writes linguiça. Whatever variant you write, every character you need is on this page.
All the accented vowels and ç are precomposed characters from Unicode's Latin-1 Supplement block, so they paste correctly into essentially anything — social media bios, school essays, spreadsheets, and government forms. That matters most for names: João, Conceição, Luís, and Gonçalves lose their identity when an English keyboard strips the marks. The ordinal indicators º and ª are genuine Portuguese punctuation, abbreviating ordinals as 1º and 2ª and titles like Srª — and º (U+00BA) is a different character from the degree sign ° (U+00B0), a distinction that matters in addresses like 3º andar.
Yes. Every character on this page comes from Unicode's Latin-1 Supplement block, supported by all modern platforms — Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, Discord, and X all render ã, ç, and the accented vowels correctly in bios, captions, comments, and usernames. Only strictly ASCII fields, like some email addresses, will refuse them, in which case accents are simply dropped.
They look nearly identical but are different characters. The masculine ordinal indicator º (U+00BA) abbreviates Portuguese ordinals — 1º de maio, 3º andar — and is often underlined in fonts. The degree sign ° (U+00B0) measures temperature and angles: 25 °C. Using the wrong one can break searches and looks off in careful typography, so copy the ordinal from this page for Portuguese text.
No — the character inventory is identical, so this page covers both. The difference is which accent certain words take: Brazilian Portuguese prefers the circumflex (Antônio, gênio, fenômeno) where European Portuguese uses the acute (António, génio, fenómeno), reflecting different pronunciations. Every letter needed for either spelling is in the sections above.
Until the 1990 Orthographic Agreement took effect, Brazil used a trema on ü to show the u was pronounced in words like lingüiça, freqüente, and pingüim. The reform abolished it, so modern Portuguese writes linguiça and frequente everywhere. You may still need ü to quote or match older Brazilian text — it survives only in foreign names like Müller.
Use the free online Portuguese keyboard linked below — it reproduces the Portuguese layout in your browser, with dead keys for acute, circumflex, and tilde accents plus ç, nothing to install. If you work in Windows apps all day, the Portuguese alt codes page lists the numeric shortcut for every accented character, such as Alt+0227 for ã.