Á

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Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak languages. This letter also appears in Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Lakota, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter “a”.

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[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Chinese

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

[edit] Czech, Hungarian, and Kiena

Á is the 2nd letter of the Hungarian, Czech, and Kiena and represents /aː/.

[edit] Faroese

Á is the 2nd letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ɔ/ or /ɔaː/.

[edit] Icelandic

Á is the 2nd letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /au̯/ (as in "ow").

[edit] Vietnamese

In the Vietnamese alphabet, á is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “a”.

[edit] Character mappings

Charset Unicode ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Á U+00C1 C1
Minuscule á U+00E1 E1

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The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter A with diacritics
Letters using acute accent

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