Ḉ (original) (raw)

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Latin letter C with acute accent and cedilla

Ḉ ḉ
Usage
Writing system Latin script
Type alphabetic
Language of origin Abkhaz language, Abaza language, Adyghe language, Ubykh language
Sound values [] or [t͡ʃʼ], [t͡ɕʼ]
History
Development Z4 Proto-Sinaitic ZayinPhoenician ZayinΖ ζ𐌆Z zꝢ ꝣÇ çḈ ḉ
Transliterations ЧӀ, Ҷ ҷ, КӀ
Other
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(minuscule: ) is a Latin script letter formed from C with added acute accent and cedilla.

It is used in the Estonian KNAB transliteration standard when representing Cyrillic letters of several Northwest Caucasian languages.[1] In transliteration of Abaza, it represents the letter ЧӀ.[2] In transliteration of Abkhaz, it represents the letter Ҷ.[3] In transliteration of Adyghe, it represents the digraph КӀ.[4]

The unicode codepoints are U+1E08 for the upper-case letter, and U+1E09 for the lower-case one.[5]

Character information

Preview
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA AND ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA AND ACUTE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 7688 U+1E08 7689 U+1E09
UTF-8 225 184 136 E1 B8 88 225 184 137 E1 B8 89
Numeric character reference
  1. ^ "Languages of smaller Caucasian peoples" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Abaza" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2003-04-20.
  3. ^ "Abkhaz" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2003-03-08.
  4. ^ "Adyghian" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2003-06-09.
  5. ^ "The Unicode Standard : Latin Extended Additional" (PDF). Retrieved 16 March 2022.