f

The sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


y

The twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


X

The twenty-fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called xis and written in the Latin script.


i

The ninth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


o

The fifteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


q

The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


v

The twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called vê and written in the Latin script.


j

The tenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


l

The twelfth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

1989, "O estranho que veio da China", Ranma ½, episode 1, Brazilian dub
Chinese man: [speaking in broken Portuguese] Vocês, senholes, muito estlanhos, não? Este lugar muito peligoso! Ninguém usa agola, tem mais de cem fontes aqui. E cada uma delas tem uma lenda telivelmente tlágica!

Chinese man: [speaking in broken Portuguese] You, gentlemen, are very weird, no? This place is very dangerous! Nobody uses it nowadays, it has more than one hundred springs here. And each one has a terribly tragic legend.

(humorous, possibly offensive) Sometimes, the consonant r is changed to l when depicting stereotypical speech of a Chinese person


r

The eighteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


p

The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


t

The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


b

The second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


k

The eleventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


g

Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.

2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 75:

She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.

The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


w

used in loanwords, varies according to the source language of the borrowed term

The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


m

The thirteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


h

coherente (now coerente)

The eighth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called agá and written in the Latin script.

silent letter used mainly in words derived from Latin, Greek and other Romance languages; word-initial only

(chiefly obsolete) silent letter used word-medially in loanwords

thesouro (now tesouro), phalange (now falange), rheumatismo (now reumatismo), Cynthia (alongside Cíntia)

(obsolete except in given names) used in the Hellenistic digraphs th, ph and rh

thesoura (now tesoura), Nathalia

(obsolete except in given names) used in words perceived to be Hellenisms

hoje, hábito, hipnose, hotel

hardcore, hacker, hall

represents /h/ in most recent loanwords from other languages, most commonly English

cheio, alho, banho

used in the digraphs ch, lh and nh, where it indicates a palatal or post-alveolar pronunciation

hir (now ir), he (now é)

(obsolete) silent letter used word-initially in monosyllabic verbs with no attack

ih! oh!

silent letter used syllable-finally in some interjections

hahaha! aham, hue hue

eh (standard é), Feh (standard Fê), fazeh (standard fazer)

(chiefly Internet slang) used as a replacement for the acute or circumflex accent, or silent infinitive -r, indicating stress

sahir (now sair), bahia (now baía)

(obsolete except in the word Bahia) silent letter used to mark some hiatus


n

The fourteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


d

The fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


s

The nineteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


z

The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


c

The third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


u

The twenty-first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


e

The fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


ç

C + Old Galician-Portuguese Ꝣ (“Visigothic z”).

der

"c cedilha" (the letter c with a cedilla)


Ç

a letter used in writing Portuguese, representing /s/

You will never see ç at the beginning or end of a word.


A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento grave (“grave accent”) in Portuguese, and found on À/à.


F

The sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


(obsolete) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called trema (“trema”) in Portuguese, and found on Ü/ü.


B

The second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


L

The twelfth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


G

The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


R

The eighteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


J

The tenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


N

The fourteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


P

The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


V

The twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


T

The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


Z

The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


H

The eighth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called agá and written in the Latin script.


U

The twenty-first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


Y

The twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


K

The eleventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


M

The thirteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


W

The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


S

The nineteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


Q

The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


O

The fifteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


I

The ninth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


a

From Latin a, form of A, from Etruscan 𐌀 (a), from Ancient Greek Α (A, “alpha”), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”), from Egyptian 𓃾.

The first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


x

The twenty-fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


ó

[…] o único professor presente quando entraram [na sala de aula] era Binns, [...] preparando-se para continuar sua monótona lengalenga sobre a guerra dos gigantes.

2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 294:

… the only present teacher when they entered [the classroom] was Binns, … preparing to continue his monotonous explanation about the giants' war.


â

[...] a poucos metros de distância [...]

2007, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 9:

a letter "a" which is stressed and close


Õ

From Old Galician-Portuguese Õ, Ō, Ȯ. Originally the letter O with a superscript N.


õ

Used to indicate nasalization, with a similar pronunciation to the letter sequence om.


ú

Ela não foi a única a notar.

2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 132:

this accent is added to the letter u when it is present in an antepenultimate and stressed syllable


A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento agudo (“acute accent”) in Portuguese, and found on Á/á, É/é, Í/í, Ó/ó and Ú/ú.


Ã

→ Guaraní: Ã

→ Nheengatu: Ã

From Old Galician-Portuguese Ã, Ā, Ȧ; originally A with a superscript N.


A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called cedilha (“cedilla”) in Portuguese, and found on Ç/ç.


ã

― Harry, você não pode mencionar uma coisa dessas numa carta! [...] ― Tudo bem, tudo bem, então não vou contar a ele, tampouco!

2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 231:

― Harrry, you can't mention such a thing in a letter! … ― All right, all right, so I won't tell him either.


acento circunflexo
acento circunflexo#Portuguese

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento circunflexo (“circumflex accent”) in Portuguese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê and Ô/ô.


A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called til (“tilde”) in Portuguese, and found on Ã/ã and Õ/õ.


For example, ⟨cᷗͦ⟩ for conçelho 'municipality'

(Medieval Portuguese) An abbreviation of the letter ⟨ç⟩ (c cedilla).


For example, ⟨pᷣto⟩ for porto 'harbor', or ⟨Mᷣᷣ⟩ for Martim 'Martin'

(Medieval Portuguese) An abbreviation of the letter ⟨ꝛ⟩ (r rotunda).


For example, ⟨gᷝ⟩ for geral 'general'

(Medieval Portuguese) An abbreviation of the letter ⟨l⟩.