Natlang Uses of Acute Accent

The acute accent comes from a Latin diacritic called apex.[1] There is a diacritic, called kreska in Polish, which looks similar to the acute accent, but which is more vertical and placed slightly to the right of the center of the base letter.[2] Unicode conflates these two diacritics though, so this article does not distinguish between them either.

Acute Accent in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Acute Accent

´

ˊ

◌́

◌́

Á

á

Ǻ

ǻ

Ấ

ấ

Ắ

ắ

Ǽ

U+00B4

U+02CA

U+0301

U+0341

U+00C1

U+00E1

U+01FA

U+01FB

U+1EA4

U+1EA5

U+1EAE

U+1EAF

U+01FC

Acute Accent

Modifier Letter Acute Accent

Combining Acute Accent

Combining Acute Tone Mark

Latin Capital Letter A With Acute

Latin Small Letter A With Acute

Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above And Acute

Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above And Acute

Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Acute

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Acute

Latin Capital Letter Ae With Acute

Note: May be confused with Apostrophe, ' (U+0027); Modifier Letter Prime, ʹ (U+02B9); Modifier Letter Turned Comma, ʻ (U+02BB); Modifier Letter Apostrophe, ʼ (U+02BC); Modifier Letter Vertical Line, ˈ (U+02C8); Right Single Quotation Mark, ’ (U+2019); or Prime, ′ (U+2032).

Note: May be confused with Combining Turned Comma Above, ◌̒ (U+0312).

ǽ

Ć

ć

Ḉ

ḉ

É

é

Ḗ

ḗ

Ế

ế

Ǵ

ǵ

U+01FD

U+0106

U+0107

U+1E08

U+1E09

U+00C9

U+00E9

U+1E16

U+1E17

U+1EBE

U+1EBF

U+01F4

U+01F5

Latin Small Letter Ae With Acute

Latin Capital Letter C With Acute

Latin Small Letter C With Acute

Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla And Acute

Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla And Acute

Latin Capital Letter E With Acute

Latin Small Letter E With Acute

Latin Capital Letter E With Macron And Acute

Latin Small Letter E With Macron And Acute

Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Capital Letter G With Acute

Latin Small Letter G With Acute

Í

í

Ḯ

ḯ

Ḱ

ḱ

Ĺ

ĺ

Ḿ

ḿ

Ń

ń

Ó

U+00CD

U+00ED

U+1E2E

U+1E2F

U+1E30

U+1E31

U+0139

U+013A

U+1E3E

U+1E3F

U+0143

U+0144

U+00D3

Latin Capital Letter I With Acute

Latin Small Letter I With Acute

Latin Capital Letter I With Diaeresis And Acute

Latin Small Letter I With Diaeresis And Acute

Latin Capital Letter K With Acute

Latin Small Letter K With Acute

Latin Capital Letter L With Acute

Latin Small Letter L With Acute

Latin Capital Letter M With Acute

Latin Small Letter M With Acute

Latin Capital Letter N With Acute

Latin Small Letter N With Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Acute

ó

Ṓ

ṓ

Ố

ố

Ṍ

ṍ

Ớ

ớ

Ǿ

ǿ

Ṕ

ṕ

U+00F3

U+1E52

U+1E53

U+1ED0

U+1ED1

U+1E4C

U+1E4D

U+1EDA

U+1EDB

U+01FE

U+01FF

U+1E54

U+1E55

Latin Small Letter O With Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Macron And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Macron And Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Circumflex And Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Horn And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Horn And Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Stroke And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Stroke And Acute

Latin Capital Letter P With Acute

Latin Small Letter P With Acute

Ŕ

ŕ

Ś

ś

Ṥ

ṥ

Ú

ú

Ǘ

ǘ

Ṹ

ṹ

Ứ

U+0154

U+0155

U+015A

U+015B

U+1E64

U+1E65

U+00DA

U+00FA

U+01D7

U+01D8

U+1E78

U+1E79

U+1EE8

Latin Capital Letter R With Acute

Latin Small Letter R With Acute

Latin Capital Letter S With Acute

Latin Small Letter S With Acute

Latin Capital Letter S With Acute And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Acute And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter U With Acute

Latin Small Letter U With Acute

Latin Capital Letter U With Diaeresis And Acute

Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis And Acute

Latin Capital Letter U With Tilde And Acute

Latin Small Letter U With Tilde And Acute

Latin Capital Letter U With Horn And Acute

ứ

Ẃ

ẃ

Ý

ý

Ź

ź

U+1EE9

U+1E82

U+1E83

U+00DD

U+00FD

U+0179

U+017A

Latin Small Letter U With Horn And Acute

Latin Capital Letter W With Acute

Latin Small Letter W With Acute

Latin Capital Letter Y With Acute

Latin Small Letter Y With Acute

Latin Capital Letter Z With Acute

Latin Small Letter Z With Acute

Natlang Examples

Uses of Acute Accent

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Following glottal stop	Alekano	Áá /ɑʔ/, Éé /eʔ/, Íí /iʔ/, Óó /ɤʔ/, Úú /ɯʔ/	The acute simply marks that the vowel is followed by a glottal stop. Unaccented vowel have the same vowel quality as the accented ones.[3]
Long vowel	Croatian, Serbian	Áá /ǎː/, Éé /ěː/, Íí /ǐː/, Óó /ǒː/, Ŕŕ /ř̩ː/, Úú /ǔː/	The acute accent marks that these vowels are long and have rising pitch. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Croatian or Serbian, but in linguistic materials.[4]
	Czech	Áá /aː/, Éé /ɛː/, Íí /iː/, Óó /oː/, Úú /uː/, Ýý /iː/	Íí and Ýý both represent the same phoneme in Standard Czech, but Íí may mark that the previous consonant is palatal, which Ýý does not.[5]
	Hungarian	Áá /aː/, Éé /eː/, Íí /iː/, Óó /oː/, Úú /uː/	See also Double Acute Accent.
	Slovak	Áá /aː/, Éé /eː/, Íí /iː/, Ĺĺ /l̩ː/, Óó /oː/, Ŕŕ /r̩ː/, Úú /uː/, Ýý /iː/
	Slovene (orthography with dynamic accentuation)	Áá /ˈaː/, Éé /ˈeː/, Íí /ˈiː/, Óó /ˈoː/, Ŕŕ /ˈəɾ/, Úú /ˈuː/	The acute accent marks that the vowel is stressed and long, and that Éé and Óó are mid-close rather than mid-open. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.[6]
	Slovene (orthography with tonal accentuation)	Áá /áː/, Éé /ɛ́ː/, Ẹ́ẹ́ /éː/, Íí /íː/, Óó /ɔ́ː/, Ọ́ọ́ /óː/, Úú /úː/	The acute accent marks that these vowels are long and have high pitch. These letters are not used in the standard orthography of Slovene, but in language materials.[7]
Palatal consonant	Polish	Ćć /tɕ/, Dź dź /d͡ʑ/, Ńń /ɲ/, Śś /ɕ/, Źź /ʑ/	Polish uses kreska instead of acute accent.
Raised vowel	Polish	Óó /u/	Historically it comes from long /oː/.[8] Polish uses kreska instead of acute accent.
Rising tone	Vietnamese	Áá /aː˧˥/, Ắắ /a˧˥/, Ấấ /ə˧˥/, Éé /ɛ˧˥/, Ếế /e˧˥/, Íí /i˧˥/, Óó /ɔ˧˥/, Ốố /o˧˥/, Ớớ /əː˧˥/, Úú /u˧˥/, Ứứ /ɨ˧˥/, Ýý /i˧˥/	There are many exceptions to the phonemic values of these letters.[9]
Stress	Catalan	Éé /ˈe/, Íí /ˈi/, Óó /ˈo/, Úú /ˈu/	The rules for when stress is to be marked in Catalan are quite complex. The acute accent also distinguishes stressed /e o/ from /ɛ ɔ/,[10] see Grave Accent, Catalan section on Uses of Grave Accent.
	Swedish	Éé /ˈeː/	Éé is not really a part of the Swedish alphabet, but it is used in many loanwords and surnames. It is used word-finally to indicate a stressed (and therefore long) /e/. These Éé occur where the vowel would usually be unstressed.[11]

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet