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. 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
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.[2]
	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.[3]
	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.[4]
	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.[5]
Palatal consonant	Polish	Ćć /tɕ/, Ńń /ɲ/, Śś /ɕ/, Źź /ʑ/	Polish uses kreska instead of acute accent.
Raised vowel	Polish	Óó /u/	Historically it comes from long /oː/.[6] 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.[7]
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/,[8] 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 denote a long, stressed /e/. These Éé occur where the vowel would normally be unstressed.[9]

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet