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

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. 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
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
  • Slovak language
  • Polish language
  • Kashubian language
  • Sorbian language