Ċ

Ċ (minuscule: ċ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a dot. It is used in Maltese to represent a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, equivalent to English ch ([t͡ʃ]), for which many other languages use Č.

Majuscule and minuscule ċ glyphs in Doulos SIL

It is used in modern transcripts of Old English for the same reason, to distinguish it from c pronounced as [k], which otherwise is spelled the same. Its voiced equivalent is Ġ.

Ċ was formerly used in Irish to represent the lenited form of C. The digraph ch, which is older than ċ in this function in Irish, is now used.

Ċ is also used in the Latin version of Chechen language and Karmeli language as of 1992. The Cyrillic equivalent is ЦӀ, represent the sound [tsʼ].

Computer encoding

Character information
PreviewĊċ
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVELATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode266U+010A267U+010B
UTF-8196 138C4 8A196 139C4 8B
Numeric character referenceĊĊċċ
Named character referenceĊċ


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