Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Czech, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Karakalpak, and Sorbian languages. This letter also appears in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian 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. Vietnamese). It is sometimes also used in English for loanwords.
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Usage in various languages
editChinese
editIn Chinese pinyin ó is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of "o".
Czech and Slovak
editÓ is the 24th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/.
Dutch
editIn Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór ("for" / "before"), or vóórkomen and voorkómen ("to occur" / "to prevent").
Emilian
editIn Emilian, ó is used to represent [o], e.g. sótt [sotː] "dry".
Faroese
editÓ is the 18th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /œ/ or /ɔuː/.
Hungarian
editÓ is the 25th letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It represents the long vowel /oː/.
Icelandic
editÓ is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /oṷ/.
Irish
editÓ 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).[1] When Irish names were anglicized, the Ó commonly was either dropped or written as O'.[2][3]
- the interjection ó "oh"
Italian
editIn 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 [ˈkorso], "course", as opposed to còrso [ˈkɔrso], "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
editÓ is the 23rd letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /o/. It also represents /u/ in southern dialects.
Kazakh
editIt was proposed in 2018 that Ó should be one of their Latin alphabet to replace Ө and represents /œ/ (or /ʷœ/). The proposal was modified to Ö in late 2019.
Karakalpak
editÓ/ó is the 21st letter of the Karakalpak alphabet and represents /ʷœ/.
Polish
editÓ is the 21st letter of the Polish alphabet, and represents /u/. Historically it represented /oː/ but morphed to /u/ over time (similar to English "oo").
Portuguese
editIn Portuguese, ó is used to mark a stressed /ɔ/ 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 /ɔ/ contrasts with ô /o/.
Romagnol
editIn Romagnol, ó is used to represent [oː], e.g. alóra [aˈloːra] "then".
Scottish Gaelic
editÓ 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
editÓ is used in the Spanish language to denote an 'o' vowel with abnormal stress.
Sorbian
editÓ represents /uʊ/ in Upper Sorbian and represents /ɛ/ or /ɨ/ in, especially, Lower Sorbian.
Vietnamese
editIn Vietnamese alphabet ó is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of "o".
Character mappings
editPreview | Ó | ó | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 211 | U+00D3 | 243 | U+00F3 |
UTF-8 | 195 147 | C3 93 | 195 179 | C3 B3 |
Numeric character reference | Ó |
Ó |
ó |
ó |
Named character reference | Ó | ó | ||
EBCDIC family | 238 | EE | 206 | CE |
ISO 8859-1/2/3/9/10/13/14/15/16 | 211 | D3 | 243 | F3 |
Key strokes
edit- Microsoft Windows users can type an "ó" by pressing Alt+0243 on the numeric pad of the keyboard.[4] "Ó" can be typed by pressing Alt+0211
- In Microsoft Word, pressing Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then O will produce the character ó. Pressing Ctrl+' (apostrophe), then ⇧ Shift+O will produce the character Ó.[5] Remember to not press shift before apostrophe, as that will not type this character.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dinneen, Patrick (1927), Foclóir Gaeḋlge agus Béarla, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- ^ "Anglicisation of Irish Surnames - Irish Names and Surnames". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ "The Anglicisation of some Gaelic Irish Surnames - translation and change - Irish Genealogy". www.familyhistoryireland.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ "19 Keyboard Shortcuts for Spanish Accents Alt Codes". Keyxl.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
- ^ "How to Type Accent Marks over Letters in Microsoft Word". 27 July 2018.