Ó

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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.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Faroese 1.2 Icelandic 1.3 Hungarian, Czech and Slovak 1.4 Polish 1.5 Kashubian 1.6 Sorbian 1.7 Spanish 1.8 Gaeilge/Irish 1.9 Vietnamese 1.10 Chinese 2 Character mappings 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Faroese

Ó is the 18th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /œ/ or /ɔuː//.

[edit] Icelandic

Ó is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /oṷ/.

[edit] 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/.

[edit] Polish

Ó is the 21st letter of the Polish alphabet, and represents /u/.

[edit] Kashubian

Ó is the 23rd letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /o/. It also represents /u/ in southern dialects.

[edit] Sorbian

Ó represents /uʊ/ in Upper Sorbian and represents /ɛ/ or /ɨ/ in Lower Sorbian.

[edit] Spanish

Óó is used in the Spanish language to denote a an 'o' syllable with abnormal stress.

[edit] 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'

[edit] Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet ó is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “o”.

[edit] Chinese

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

[edit] Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Ó	U+00D3	D3
Minuscule ó	U+00F3	F3

[edit] See also

• Acute accent

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Faroese language
  • Hungarian language
  • Icelandic language
  • Czech language
  • Irish language
  • Slovak language
  • Polish language
  • Kashubian language
  • Sorbian language

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
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