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Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak languages. This letter also appears in Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter “a”.
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Usage in various languages
Chinese
In Chinese pinyin á is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “a”.
Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak
Á is the 2nd letter of the Hungarian alphabet, Czech alphabet, and Slovak alphabet and represents /aː/.
Faroese
Á is the 2nd letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ɔ/ or /ɔaː/.
Icelandic
Á is the 2nd letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /au̯/ (as in "ow").
Swedish
Though not in the alphabet, it is commonly used to describe price per piece, as in "120 SEK, á 12 SEK" (thus meaning ten pieces).
Vietnamese
In the Vietnamese alphabet, á is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of “a”.
Character mappings
| Charset | Unicode | ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 |
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| Majuscule Á | U+00C1 | C1 |
| Minuscule á | U+00E1 | E1 |
See also
External links
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Letter A with diacritics
Letters using acute accent
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters |
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