Hungarian Keyboard: Typing ő and ű, with the 101-Key Variant
Type á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü and ű here, capitals with Shift, then copy: click a letter, or hold Alt with its plain vowel and press again for the next accent. A Hungarian keyboard gives each its own key: ő right of P, ű right of á, and ö, ü and ó after 9.
Hungarian is the board Windows installs with the language, a QWERTZ layout here rebuilt from Microsoft's own files, and the switch brings up Hungarian 101-key. Use the keys you have, or tap these. Each colored key is a vowel English keyboards lack: ö, ü and ó after 9, ő and ú right of P, é, á and ű right of L, and í beside the left Shift. To make room, 0 moved left of 1.
Narrow screens get one big key per Hungarian vowel, Shift turning each into its capital; the full Windows board appears from tablet width. Phone keyboards document a long press for the plain vowels: Touch and hold A, then slide to á.
Hungarian letters an English keyboard lacks dead key: it types nothing until the next key
- á é í ó ö ő ú ü ű keys of their own
Each Hungarian vowel in one click, ő and ű too; press Shift first for Ő, Ű or any other capital.
Which keys type Hungarian letters in this editor?
In the box above, hold Alt and press the plain letter: the editor types its Hungarian form. Add Shift for the capital. ó, ö and ő share one key: press Alt+O again straight away to switch between them.
| Press | Types | With Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Alt+A | á | Á |
| Alt+E | é | É |
| Alt+I | í | Í |
| Alt+O, again | ó, then ö, then ő | Ó, then Ö, then Ő |
| Alt+U, again | ú, then ü, then ű | Ú, then Ü, then Ű |
These keys belong to this page only; they do nothing in other apps. On a Mac the editor leaves Option to macOS, so the Mac's own accent keys work in the box as they do everywhere else: á is Option+E, then A. AltGr on a Windows keyboard is left alone too, so it types what your layout prints on the key.
Where are ő and ű on a Hungarian keyboard, next to ö and ü?
On keys of their own, away from their short partners: ő right of P and ű at the end of the home row, while ö and ü sit on the number row. Microsoft's file for the Hungarian keyboard layout, KLID 0000040E, places the vowels like this:
- ö, ü, ó follow 9 on the number row, where an English keyboard has 0, - and =.
- ő, ú follow P, on the keys of [ and ].
- é, á, ű follow L. ű is the last of them, next to Enter.
- í is left of Y, on the key next to the left Shift.
Shift gives each capital, and so does Caps Lock. AltGr with ö is also a dead key with the double acute, ˝, so it, then o, types ő a second way. In Windows' table of default input profiles, hu-HU gets exactly this keyboard.
What the double acute tells a reader, and why ő is not the õ an old web page shows, is on the Hungarian alphabet page.
What moved on a Hungarian layout to make room for ö, ü and ó?
The 0 key, first. Next to an English keyboard, three vowels take the end of the number row, and 0 sits at its other end, left of 1, with § on Shift. The symbols leave the row too: Shift with the digits gives ' " + ! % / = ( ), and the rest went to AltGr.
| Where English keyboards have it | Hungarian puts it on |
|---|---|
| 0 | the key left of 1 |
| @ | AltGr with V |
| # and & | AltGr with X and with C |
| [ and ] | AltGr with F and with G |
| AltGr with B and with N | |
| \ and | | AltGr with Q and with W |
| $ | AltGr with é |
| € (no key) | AltGr with U |
The letters moved as well: on this QWERTZ board z comes after T, and y sits between í and X in the bottom row.
How is Hungarian 101-key different from the standard layout?
Hungarian 101-key, KLID 0001040E, is the second Hungarian keyboard Windows ships. It keeps every vowel key where it was and changes the rest:
- It is QWERTY: Y is back right of T.
- í also takes the key left of 1, so a keyboard without the key beside the left Shift still types it. 0 moves to AltGr with that key.
- It has no dead key at all. AltGr with the digits types ˇ, ^, ˘ and the other marks as plain characters, not as accents that wait for a letter.
- AltGr gains § on R and ¤ on T.
A Mac does it differently. Its input source Hungarian – QWERTY keeps 0 left of 1 and í beside the left Shift; without a modifier it differs from Hungarian only in Y and Z. The vowel keys of both Mac sources, Hungarian and Hungarian – QWERTY, match Windows, as Apple's key translation reported on macOS 26.6.2.
Why does Option on a Hungarian Mac type ą, ń and a capital Ż?
Because Apple filled the Option layers of its Hungarian input source with letters of other Central European languages, and not in small and capital pairs. We ran every key through UCKeyTranslate on macOS 26.6.2 and found this:
- Option with A types ą, and Shift and Option with A its capital Ą, as you would expect.
- Option with K types a capital Ż, while the small ż is Shift and Option with S.
- Option with O gives Ņ and Option with M Ķ, both capitals; Option with H gives the small ķ.
- Shift and Option with E types š, with T ś, with L Ů and with J Ô.
None of them is Hungarian: the Hungarian vowels all have keys without Option. Hungarian – QWERTY uses the layers differently. Its Shift and Option chords are dead keys, the acute on E, the háček on 5 and the tilde on 1, and Option gives € on E and @ on 2.
Why can't US International type ő and ű?
Because none of its dead keys is a double acute. The dead keys of Microsoft's US International layout (opens in a new tab) are the apostrophe, the quotation mark, the grave, the tilde and the circumflex. They make ó, ö and õ, never ő, and no AltGr key types ő or ű either. Without a Hungarian keyboard, use this Hungarian keyboard online, or the device cards that follow: they give Word's code and the Windows symbol panel for both letters.
What are the Hungarian keyboard shortcuts on each device?
Without a Hungarian layout, these are the documented ways to type the letters: one card per device, and in each card the letters typed the same way share a line, with the steps for the first of them.
Mac
- ö ü
- For ö: Option+U, then O
- ő ű
- For ő: Fn/Globe+E, then search "latin small letter o with double acute", then ő
- á é í ó ú
- For á: Option+E, then A
Windows
- ő ű
- For ő: Win+., then Symbols, then ő
- á 0225, é 0233, í 0237, ó 0243, ö 0246, ú 0250, ü 0252
- For á: Alt+0225
iPhone, iPad and Android
- á é í ó ö ú ü
- For á: Touch and hold A, then slide to á
No documented method for ő ű.
Chromebook
- ö ü
- For ö: Switch to the US International keyboard, then Shift+', then O
- á é í ó ú
- For á: Switch to the US International keyboard, then ', then A
No documented method for ő ű.
Microsoft Word
- ö ü
- For ö: Ctrl+Shift+:, then O
- ő 0151, ű 0171
- For ő: 0151, then Alt+X
- á é í ó ú
- For á: Ctrl+', then A
Google Docs
- á é í ó ö ő ú ü ű
- For á: Insert, then Symbols, then Special characters, then search "latin small letter a with acute"
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Frequently asked questions about the Hungarian keyboard
What do you press for @ on a Hungarian keyboard?
On AltGr with V, on both Windows Hungarian layouts. A Mac moves it: the input source named Hungarian types @ with Option and Q, and Hungarian – QWERTY with Option and 2, by our UCKeyTranslate run on macOS 26.6.2.
What does the key left of Z do on a Hungarian keyboard?
It types í, with Í on Shift, and AltGr with it gives <. On a keyboard that has no key there, Hungarian 101-key still types í: it puts the letter on the key left of 1 as well, and 0 on AltGr with that key.
Does Caps Lock give Ő and Ű on a Hungarian layout?
Yes. Microsoft's data lists a Caps Lock state for every vowel key of Hungarian, and it is the capital: Ö, Ü, Ó, Ő, Ú, É, Á, Ű and Í. Shift with Caps Lock on gives the small letter back. The digit keys are not affected.