What Is the Acute accent? Meaning, Letters and How to Type It
A short line slanting up to the right. It marks stress in Spanish (canción), a closed vowel in French (été), vowel length in Czech, Hungarian and Irish, and a rising tone in Vietnamese and Pinyin.
Letters with the acute accent: ó é í ú á ý ć ń ĺ ŕ ś ź ǵ ḱ
Combining character: U+0301
What the acute accent does
A short line slanting up to the right. It marks stress in Spanish (canción), a closed vowel in French (été), vowel length in Czech, Hungarian and Irish, and a rising tone in Vietnamese and Pinyin. Unicode encodes 36 precomposed letters with this mark as their first diacritic, and the combining form U+0301 can add it to any other letter.
Languages that use it
Afrikaans, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Mandarin Pinyin, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba.
All lowercase letters with the acute accent
Codes and shortcuts
| Letter | Name | Unicode | Alt code | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ó | o with acute | U+00F3 | Alt+0243 | Option+E, then O |
| é | e with acute | U+00E9 | Alt+0233 | Option+E, then E |
| í | i with acute | U+00ED | Alt+0237 | Option+E, then I |
| ú | u with acute | U+00FA | Alt+0250 | Option+E, then U |
| á | a with acute | U+00E1 | Alt+0225 | Option+E, then A |
| ý | y with acute | U+00FD | Alt+0253 | — |
| ć | c with acute | U+0107 | — | — |
| ń | n with acute | U+0144 | — | — |
| ĺ | l with acute | U+013A | — | — |
| ŕ | r with acute | U+0155 | — | — |
| ś | s with acute | U+015B | — | — |
| ź | z with acute | U+017A | — | — |
| ǵ | g with acute | U+01F5 | — | — |
| ḱ | k with acute | U+1E31 | — | — |
| ḿ | m with acute | U+1E3F | — | — |
| ṕ | p with acute | U+1E55 | — | — |
| ṥ | s with acute and dot above | U+1E65 | — | — |
| ẃ | w with acute | U+1E83 | — | — |
How to type it on any letter
On Windows, hold Alt and type the code from the table, or type the letter followed by U+0301 in Word and press Alt+X. On a Mac, use Unicode Hex Input: type the letter, then hold Option and type 0301. On a Chromebook, type the letter, then Ctrl+Shift+U, 0301, Space.
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