Ó

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, Italian and Vietnamese languages as a variant of letter “o”. It is also used in English for other purposes. This also appears in Pumpokol.

Usage in various languages

English

Used for loanwords like periódico

Chinese

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

Czech and Slovak

Ó is the 24th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/.

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/.

Irish

Ó is widely used in Irish where it has various meanings:

• the preposition ó "from"
• the patronymic term Ó "grandson, (usually male) descendant", first or second cousin" (variants: Ua, Uí, Í Uaí). When Irish names were anglicized, the Ó commonly was either dropped or written as O'.
• the interjection ó "oh"

Kashubian

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

Hungarian

Ó is the 25th letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It represents /oː/.

Polish

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

Portuguese

In Portuguese, the "ó" isn't considered a letter, but the letter "o" with an accent. It's used to denote an "o" syllable with abnormal stress. It also changes the sound of the letter "o" from /o/ to [ɒ, ɔ].

Scottish Gaelic

Ó was once widely used in Scottish, but has now been largely superseded by "ò". It can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography.

Spanish

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

Sorbian

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

Vietnamese

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

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

See also

• Acute accent

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 ISO basic 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 O with diacritics
Óó	Òò	Ŏŏ	Ôô	Ốố	Ồồ	Ỗỗ	Ổổ	Ǒǒ	Öö	Ȫȫ	Őő	Õõ	Ṍṍ	Ṏṏ	Ȭȭ	Ȯȯ	O͘o͘	Ȱȱ	Øø	Ǿǿ	Ǫǫ	Ǭǭ	Ōō	Ṓṓ	Ṑṑ
Ỏỏ	Ȍȍ	Ȏȏ	Ơơ	Ớớ	Ờờ	Ỡỡ	Ởở	Ợợ	Ọọ	Ộộ	Ɵɵ	Ɔɔ	ⱺ
Letters using acute accent ( ◌́ )
Áá	Ǽǽ	Ćć	Éé	Ǵǵ	Í í	Ḱḱ	Ĺĺ	Ḿḿ	Ńń	Óó	Ǿǿ	Ṕṕ	Ŕŕ	Śś	Úú	Ẃẃ	Ýý	Źź
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode