Ó
Ó, ó is a letter in the Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, Karakalpak, and Sorbian languages. The symbol also appears in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Galician languages as a variant of the letter "o". It usually represents a vowel sound longer than or slightly different from that represented by plain "o", although in some cases its sound is notably different. In some cases it represents the vowel "o" with a particular tone. It is sometimes also used in English for loanwords.
Usage in various languages
Chinese
In Chinese pinyin ó is the yángpíng 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.Dobrujan Tatar
Ó is the 21st letter of Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the mid rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɵ/ as in "tór" 'background'Dutch
In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór, or vóórkomen and voorkómen.Emilian
In Emilian, ó is used to represent , e.g. sótt "dry".Faroese
Ó is the 18th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents or.Hungarian
Ó is the 25th letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It represents the long vowel.Icelandic
Ó is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents.Irish
Ó is widely used in Irish where it has various meanings:- the preposition ó "from"
- the patronymic term Ó "grandson, descendant, first or second cousin". When Irish names were anglicized, the Ó commonly was either dropped or written as O'.
- the interjection ó "oh"
Italian