Á, á ( a- acute) is a letter of the Chinese ( Pinyin),

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, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Lakota,

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, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a. It is sometimes confused with à; e.g. "5 pommes á $1", which is supposed to be written as "5 pommes à $1" (meaning "5 apples at 1 dollar each" in French).

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin á is the ''yángpíng'' tone ( 陽平/ 阳平 "high-rising tone") of "a".

Dutch

In Dutch, the Á is used to put emphasis on an "a", either in a long "a" form like in ''háár'' ("hair"), or in a short form like in ''kán'' (the verb "can").

Irish

In Irish, á is called ''a fada'' ("long a"), pronounced and appears in words such as ''slán'' ("goodbye"). It is the only diacritic used in Modern Irish, since the decline of the dot above many letters in the Irish language. Fada is only used on vowel letters i.e. á, é, í, ó, ú. It symbolises a lengthening of the vowel.

Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak

Á is the 2nd letter of the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages and represents the sound .

Faroese

Á is the 2nd letter of the

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and represents or .

Icelandic

Á is the second letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents (as in "ow").

Kazakh

In the 2018 amends of Kazakh alphabet list, Á is defined as the second letter and represents . It has been replaced by Ä ä in the 2019 amends, and matches

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alphabet Ә, 2017 version Aʼ and Arabic ٵ.

Portuguese

In Portuguese, á is used to mark a stressed in words whose stressed syllable is in an abnormal location within the word, as in ''lá'' (there) and ''rápido'' (rapid, fast). If the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Á contrasts with â, pronounced .

Scottish Gaelic

Á was once used in

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, but has now been largely superseded by à. It can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography.

Spanish

In Spanish, á is an accented letter, pronounced just the way a is. Both á and a sound like /a/. The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to "break up" a

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or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong. See

Diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...

and

Acute accent The acute accent (), , is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed ch ...

for more details.

Vietnamese

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

Welsh

In Welsh, word stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, but one way of indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is through the use of the acute accent. The acute accent on ''a'' is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for example, ''casáu'' "to hate", ''caniatáu'' "to allow", ''carafán'' "caravan".

Character mappings

References

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