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Also known as acute, ◌́, ´, ˊ

diacritic

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Part of
Ź
Depicts
tone
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IPA Unicode 0x0301.svg
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different from
fatha
topic has template
Template:Letters with acute
Commons category
Acute accent mark
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Encyclopedic overview

The acute accent (´, ◌́ ) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available.

Uses

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “acute accent” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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