Ȼ (minuscule: ȼ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a stroke through the letter. Its minuscule form represents the sound [ ts ] (ts as in cats) in certain phonetic transcription systems for the indigenous languages of Mexico, [1] and the Saanich alphabet uses its majuscule form (the alphabet is caseless) for [ kʷ ] (qu as in quilt), [2] and in Unifon, a phonemic transcription for American English; where it represents the sound of Ч.
Ȼ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, in the Latin Extended-B block. [3] It did previously not exist in character sets, and consequently, few fonts can display it. The cent sign is often substituted for it instead.
Preview | Ȼ | ȼ | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH STROKE | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 571 | U+023B | 572 | U+023C |
UTF-8 | 200 187 | C8 BB | 200 188 | C8 BC |
Numeric character reference | Ȼ | Ȼ | ȼ | ȼ |