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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 is the 21st letter of the Polish alphabet, and represents /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 stronger pronunciation.
Gaelige/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 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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