Ĉ

C circumflex
	Ĉ ĉ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Esperanto
Phonetic usage	[t͡ʃ]
Unicode codepoint	U+0108, U+0109
Alphabetical position	4; Numerical value: 4
History
Other
Associated numbers	4

Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ].

It is based on the letter c. Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets. Letters and digraphs that are similar to ĉ and represent the same sound include Slovene č, Albanian ç, Polish digraph cz, English and Spanish digraph ch, Estonian digraph tš, French trigraph tch, Norwegian trigraph tsj, German tetragraph tsch, and Italian c before i or e.

Ĉ is the fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. Although it is written as cx and ch respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as C with a circumflex: ĉ.

Character mappings

Character information
Preview	Ĉ		ĉ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX		LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	264	U+0108	265	U+0109
UTF-8	196 136	C4 88	196 137	C4 89
Numeric character reference	Ĉ	Ĉ	ĉ	ĉ
Named character reference	&Ccirc;		&ccirc;

Ĉ

Character mappings

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