O with acute (О́ о́; italics:
''О́ о́'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking cou ...
. In all its forms it
looks exactly like the
Latin letter O with acute
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(Ó ó
''Ó ó'').
Usage
and other Cyrillic vowels with accents are mostly found in
East Slavic languages
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in words in Russian: замо́к, дóма, звóнит, etc.
These kinds of words are longer than one syllable carries an accent. The accents are fundamental vowels are pronounced with more intensity and do not change their sound within words.
In East Slavic languages, just like any other stressed vowels in Slavic languages, mainly in the East Slavic languages are important for native speakers to understand correctly.
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter О́ is not represented directly by a
precomposed character
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in
Unicode
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either; it has to be
composed
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as
О+
◌́ (U+0301).
Related letters and other similar characters
*O o :
Latin letter O
*Ó ó :
Latin letter Ó - a Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Sorbian, and Slovak letter
*О о :
Cyrillic letter О
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
References
Letters with acute
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
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