Ó

Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian languages. This letter also appears in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Galician languages as a variant of letter “o”. It is sometimes also used in English for loanwords.

Usage in various languages

Spanish

Used for loanwords like periódico, peón, piñón or bodegón (Spanish).

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin 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. It represents /oː/.

Emilian-Romagnol

In Emilian, ó is used to represent [o], e.g. sótt [sotː] "dry". In Romagnol, ó is used to represent [oː], e.g. alóra [aˈloːra] "then".

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/.

Irish

Ó 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). When Irish names were anglicized, the Ó commonly was either dropped or written as O'.
• the interjection ó "oh"

Italian

In 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".

Kashubian

Ó is the 23rd letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /o/. It also represents /u/ in southern dialects.

Hungarian

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

Polish

Ó is the 21st letter of the Polish alphabet, and represents /u/.

Portuguese

In 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/.

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Ó was once widely used in Scottish, but it has now been largely superseded by "ò".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' syllable with abnormal stress.

Sorbian

Ó represents /uʊ/ in Upper Sorbian and represents /ɛ/ or /ɨ/ in, especially, Lower Sorbian.

Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet ó is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “o”.

Character mappings

Character information

Preview	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

See also

• Acute accent