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Latin letter C with circumflex; used in Esperanto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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| C circumflex | |
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| Ĉ ĉ | |
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| 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 |
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| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 4 |
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⟩.
| Preview | Ĉ | ĉ | ||
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| 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 | ||
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