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The {{tilde}} or {{~}} (tilde accent) diacritics template returns the UTF-16 HTML [hexadecimal] numeric character entity for a precomposed character with a tilde accent diacritic. (As a fallback, it returns a combining character for any Latin or Cyrillic character.)

With the tex option, the template returns the LaTeX code for the acute accent character.

Note: This is for XHTML5 future proofing, where named character entities should not be used, except the following four

Named entity	Glyph
&	&
&lt;	<
&gt;	>
&quot;	"

Numeric character entities or glyphs (except the four above glyphs, which have a special meaning in HTML) should be used instead.

Usage

HTML

{{~|alphabetic character}}

or

{{~|alphabetic character|htm}}

where character is either from

• {A, N, O, a, n, o}: to get a precomposed character;
• any other character from the Latin alphabet: to get a combining character (where an almost perfect accented character is created);
• or any character from the Cyrillic alphabet: to get a combining character (where an almost perfect accented character is created).

LaTeX

{{~|any Latin or Cyrillic character|tex}}

Tests

The code

{{math|{{~}},{{sp|quad}}{{~}}''a'',{{sp|quad}}''a''{{~}},{{sp|quad}}''{{~|a}}''|&}}

yields

 

̃, ̃a, ã, ã

The code

{{math|{{~||tex}},{{sp|quad|tex}}{{~||tex}}''a'',{{sp|quad|tex}}''a''{{~||tex}},{{sp|quad|tex}}''{{~|a|tex}}''|$}}

yields

$\textstyle {{\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle }}},{\quad }{\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle }}}a,{\quad }a{\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle }}},{\quad }{\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle a}}}}$

The code (because we use the \scriptstyle kludge to get a smaller font, \tilde{a} renders almost the same as \bar{a}, e.g. {{math|\bar{a},\, \tilde{a}|$}} gives$\textstyle {{\bar {a}},\,{\tilde {a}}}$)

{{math|\tilde{a},\quad { \textstyle \tilde{a} },\quad { \textstyle \tilde{\scriptstyle a} },\quad <!-- -->{ \textstyle \tilde{\scriptstyle B} }|$}}

yields

$\textstyle {{\tilde {a}},\quad {\textstyle {\tilde {a}}},\quad {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle a}}},\quad {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle B}}}}$

Examples

Precomposed characters

Precomposed characters (HTML)

HTML code	HTML result	LaTeX code	LaTeX result
{{tilde|A}}, ''{{tilde|A}}''	Ã, Ã	{{math|{{tilde|A|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle A}}}$
{{tilde|N}}, ''{{tilde|N}}''	Ñ, Ñ	{{math|{{tilde|N|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle N}}}$
{{tilde|O}}, ''{{tilde|O}}''	Õ, Õ	{{math|{{tilde|O|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle O}}}$
{{tilde|a}}, ''{{tilde|a}}''	ã, ã	{{math|{{tilde|a|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle a}}}$
{{tilde|n}}, ''{{tilde|n}}''	ñ, ñ	{{math|{{tilde|n|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle n}}}$
{{tilde|o}}, ''{{tilde|o}}''	õ, õ	{{math|{{tilde|o|tex}}|$}}	$\textstyle {\textstyle {\tilde {\scriptstyle o}}}$

Combining characters

Cyrillic letters

Cyrillic letters
(combining characters for HTML)

Cyrillic letter (without tilde)	HTML code	HTML result
а	{{tilde|a}}	а̃
е	{{tilde|е}}	е̃
и	{{tilde|и}}	и̃
о	{{tilde|о}}	о̃
у	{{tilde|у}}	у̃

Examples of improper usage

HTML code	HTML result	HTML code	HTML result
{{~|B}}	B̃	{{~|b}}	b̃
{{~|W}}	W̃	{{~|w}}	w̃
{{~|X}}	X̃	{{~|x}}	x̃
{{~|Z}}	Z̃	{{~|z}}	z̃
{{~|4}}	4̃	{{~|7}}	7̃
{{~|?}}	?̃	{{~|!}}	!̃

See also

• {{Diacritics templates}}

• {{acute}} or {{´}} (acute accent)
• {{grave}} or {{`}} (grave accent)
• {{hat}} or {{circ}} or {{circumflex}} (circumflex accent)
• {{widehat}}
• {{check}}
• {{tilde}} or {{~}} (tilde accent)
• {{widetilde}}
• {{dot}}
• {{umlaut}}
• {{breve}}
• {{macron}}