Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian languages. This letter also appears in the Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese languages as a variant of letter “o”. It is also used in English for other purposes.
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Usage in various languages
Faroese
Ó is the 18th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /œ/ or /ɔuː//.
Icelandic
Ó is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /oṷ/.
Hungarian, Czech and Slovak
Ó is the 25th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, the 24th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/.
Polish
Ó - 21 letter of the Polish alphabet. Historically this meant in Polish Vowel length that long on that later moved to (between O and U. Lips like the U of O pronunciation ). Then he began to transform the pronunciation of "/u/".
Kashubian
Ó is the 23rd letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /o/. It also represents /u/ in southern dialects.
Sorbian
Ó represents /uʊ/ in Upper Sorbian and represents /ɛ/ or /ɨ/ in Lower Sorbian.
Spanish
Óó is used in the Spanish language to denote a an 'o' syllable with abnormal stress.
Gaeilge/Irish
Ó is widely used in Irish - also known as Gaeilge - where it means 'from'. It is also used in male surnames, where it is derived from 'uaidh', which indicated grandson/descendant in contrast to 'mac' which means son. When Irish names were anglicised, the Ó which was common in many names was either dropped or subsequently written as O'
Vietnamese
In Vietnamese alphabet ó is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “o”.
Chinese
In Chinese pinyin ó is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “o”.
Character mappings
| Charset | Unicode | ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
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| Majuscule Ó | U+00D3 | D3 |
| Minuscule ó | U+00F3 | F3 |
See also
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Letter O with diacritics
Letters using acute accent
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