Ò

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Latin letter O with grave

Ò, ò (o-grave) is a letter of the Latin script.

It is used in Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, Lombard, Papiamento, Occitan, Kashubian, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Taos, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Norwegian, Welsh and Italian.

Usage in various languages[edit]

Kashubian[edit]

Ò is the 28th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /wɛ/.

Vietnamese[edit]

In the Vietnamese alphabet, ò is the huyền tone (falling tone) of "o".

Chinese[edit]

In Chinese pinyin, ò is the yángqù tone (阳去, falling tone) of "o".

Italian[edit]

In Italian, the grave accent is used over any vowel to indicate word-final stress: Niccolò (equivalent of Nicholas and the forename of Machiavelli).

It can also be used on the nonfinal vowels o and e to indicate that the vowel is stressed and that it is open: còrso, "Corsican", vs. córso, "course"/"run", the past participle of "correre". Ò represents the open-mid back rounded vowel /ɔ/ and È represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/.

Emilian-Romagnol[edit]

In Emilian, ò is used to represent Emilian pronunciation: [ɔː], e.g. òs Emilian pronunciation: [ɔːs] "bone". In Romagnol, it is used to represent Romagnol pronunciation: [ɔ], e.g. piò Romagnol pronunciation: [pjɔ] "more".

Norwegian[edit]

Ò can be found in the Norwegian word òg which is an alternative spelling of også, meaning "also". This word is found in both Nynorsk and Bokmål.

Macedonian[edit]

In Macedonian, о̀ is used to differentiate the word о̀д (English: walk) from the more common од (English: from). Both о̀ and о are pronounced as [o].

Welsh[edit]

In Welsh, ò is sometimes used, usually in words borrowed from another language, to mark vowels that are short when a long vowel would normally be expected, e.g., clòs (English: close [of the weather]).

Character mappings[edit]

Character information
Preview Ò ò
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 210 U+00D2 242 U+00F2
UTF-8 195 146 C3 92 195 178 C3 B2
Numeric character reference Ò Ò ò ò
Named character reference Ò ò
ISO 8859-1, 3, 9, 14, 15, 16 210 D2 242 F2