Ó, ó ( o-

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) is a letter in the

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...

, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian,

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, Slovak, and

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. This letter also appears in the

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, Catalan,

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Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

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Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

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and Galician languages as a variant of letter "o". In some cases, The Letter "ó" is used in some languages as in a high rising tone (e.g.

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) It is sometimes also used in

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for loanwords.

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinese

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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 The first Slovak orthography was proposed by Anton Bernolák (1762–1813) in his ''Dissertatio philologico-critica de litteris Slavorum'', used in the six-volume ''Slovak-Czech-Latin-German-Hungarian Dictionary'' (1825–1927) and used primarily ...

. It represents .

Dutch

, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example and ("for" / "before"), or and ("to occur" / "to prevent").

Emilian-Romagnol

In Emilian, ó is used to represent e.g. ''sótt'' otː"dry". In Romagnol, ó is used to represent ː e.g. ''alóra'' ˈloːra"then".

Faroese

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

Icelandic

Ó is the 19th letter of the

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and represents .

Irish

Ó is widely used in

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 name A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, surnames are generally patronymic in etymology but are no longer literal patronyms as, for example, most Icelandic names still are. The form of a surname varies ...

s were

anglicized Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influenc ...

, the ''Ó'' commonly was either dropped or written as ''O. * the

interjection An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. It is a diverse category, encompassing many different parts of speech, such as exclamations ''(ouch!'', ''wow!''), curse ...

''ó'' "oh"

Italian

, ''ó'' is an optional symbol (especially used in dictionaries) sometimes used to indicate that a stressed ''o'' should be pronounced with a close sound: ''córso'' , "course", as opposed to ''còrso'' , "Corsican" (but both are commonly written with no accent marks when the context is clear). A similar process may occur with ''é'' and ''è'', as in ''*pésca'', "fishing", and ''*pèsca'' "peach", in which the accent mark is not written (both are written as ''pesca'').

Kashubian

Ó is the 23rd letter of the

Kashubian alphabet The Kashubian or Cassubian alphabet (''kaszëbsczi alfabét'', ''kaszëbsczé abecadło'') is the script of the Kashubian language, based on the Latin alphabet. The Kashubian alphabet consists of 34 letters: A, Ą, Ã, B, C, D, E, É, ...

and represents . It also represents in southern dialects.

Hungarian

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

Kazakh

It was proposed in 2018 that Ó should be one of their

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and th ...

to replace Ө and represents (or ). The proposal was modified to Ö in late 2019.

Polish

Ó is the 21st letter of the

Polish alphabet The Polish alphabet ( Polish: ''alfabet polski'', ''abecadło'') is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters with diacritics: the ''kreska ...

, and represents . Historically it represented but morphed to over time (similar to English "oo").

Portuguese

In Portuguese, ó is used to mark a stressed in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word, as in "pó" (dust) and "óculos" (glasses). If the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Ó contrasts with ô .

Scottish Gaelic

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

Spanish

Ó is used in the Spanish language to denote an 'o' vowel with abnormal

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Sorbian

Ó represents in

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and represents or in, especially,

Lower Sorbian Lower may refer to: *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England See also *Nizhny Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́� ...

Vietnamese

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ó is the ''sắc'' tone (high-rising tone) of "o".

Character mappings

Key strokes

* Microsoft Windows users can type an "ó" by pressing on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "Ó" can be typed by pressing * In

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, pressing , then will produce the character ó. Pressing , then will produce the character Ó. Remember to not press shift ''before'' apostrophe, as that will not type this character.

References

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