´

See also: ˊ [U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT], ʹ [U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME], and ◌́ [U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT]

´ U+00B4, ´
ACUTE ACCENT
³
[U+00B3]
Latin-1 Supplement µ
[U+00B5]

Translingual

Diacritical mark

´

  1. (formal) An acute accent or oxia as a spacing character.

Usage notes

The Unicode code point U+1FFD GREEK OXIA is canonically equivalent to U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT.

The use of these spacing characters is generally archaic outside of pedagogical contexts. See U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT ˊ for the tone mark.

Compare grave accent: `.

Punctuation mark

´

  1. (nonstandard, Internet) An apostrophe '

Further reading

Ankave

Letter

´

  1. the glottal stop

Polish

Etymology

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Diacritical mark

´

  1. softens consonants
    c (/t͡s/) + ‎´ → ‎ć (/t͡ɕ/)
    dz (/d͡z/) + ‎´ → ‎dź (/d͡ʑ/)
    n (/n/) + ‎´ → ‎ń (/ɲ/)
    s (/s/) + ‎´ → ‎ś (/ɕ/)
    z (/z/) + ‎´ → ‎ź (/ʑ/)
  2. (Middle Polish) represents vowels with higher articulation
    a (/a/) + ‎´ → ‎á (/ɒ/)
    e (/ɛ/) + ‎´ → ‎é (/e/)
    o (/ɔ/) + ‎´ → ‎ó (/o/)
  3. (Middle Polish) palatalizes consonants
    b (/b/) + ‎´ → ‎ (/bʲ/)
    m (/m/) + ‎´ → ‎ḿ (/mʲ/)
    p (/p/) + ‎´ → ‎ (/pʲ/)
    w (/v/) + ‎´ → ‎ (/vʲ/)

Seneca

Pronunciation

Letter

´

  1. alternative form of ʼ

Skolt Sami

Letter

´

  1. alternative form of ʹ

See also