Ĉ

Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ], the pronunciation of the English ⟨ch⟩ as in "cheese".^[1]

C circumflex
Ĉ ĉ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Esperanto
Sound values	[t͡ʃ]
In Unicode	U+0108, U+0109
Alphabetical position	4 Numerical value: 4
History
Development	ج Γ γ 𐌂 C c Ĉ ĉ
Transliterations	č ç cz ch tch tsch cs tx ci ce
Other
Associated numbers	4
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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⟩, French trigraph ⟨tch⟩, German tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, Hungarian digraph ⟨cs⟩, Basque and Catalan digraph ⟨tx⟩ and Italian ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨e⟩.

⟨Ĉ⟩ is the fourth letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as ⟨c⟩x and ⟨c⟩h 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	dec	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	Ĉ		ĉ

See also

• Ĝ
• Ĥ
• Ĵ
• Ŝ
• Ŭ

References

1. "Unicode Character "Ĉ" (U+0108)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-17.