Ó, ó (o-acute) is a letter in the Czech, Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Slovak, and Sorbian languages. This letter also appears in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Galician languages as a variant of letter "o". In some cases, The Letter "ó" is used in some languages as in a high rising tone (e.g. Vietnamese). It is sometimes also used in English for loanwords. Usage in various languages Chinese In Chinese pinyin ó is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of "o". Czech and Slovak Ó is the 24th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents . Dutch In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example and ("for" / "before"), or and ("to occur" / "to prevent"). Emilian-Romagnol In Emilian, ó is used to represent [o], e.g. sótt [sotː] "dry". In Romagnol, ó is used to represent [oː], e.g. alóra [aˈloːra] "then". Faroese Ó is the 18th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents or . Hungarian Ó is the 25th letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It represents the long vowel . Icelandic Ó is the 19th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents . Irish Ó is widely used in Irish where it has various meanings: the preposition ó "from" the patronymic term Ó "grandson, (usually male) descendant, first or second cousin" (variants: Ua, Uí, Í Uaí). When Irish names were anglicized, the Ó commonly was either dropped or written as O'''. the interjection ó "oh" Italian In Italian, ó is an optional symbol (especially used in dictionaries) sometimes used to indicate that a stressed o should be pronounced with a close sound: córso , "course", as opposed to còrso , "Corsican" (but both are commonly written with no accent marks when the context is clear). A similar process may occur with é and è, as in *pésca, "fishing", and *pèsca "peach", in which the accent mark is not written (both are written as pesca). Kashubian Ó is the 23rd letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents . It also represents in southern dialects. Kazakh It was proposed in 2018 that Ó should be one of their Latin alphabet to replace Ө and represents (or ). The proposal was modified to Ö in late 2019. Polish Ó is the 21st letter of the Polish alphabet,