Ḉ

Ḉ
Ḉ ḉ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Abkhaz language, Abaza language, Adyghe language, Ubykh language
Sound values	[ kʼ ] or [ t͡ʃʼ ], [ t͡ɕʼ ]
History
Development	Ζ ζ 𐌆 Z z Ꝣ ꝣ Ç ç Ḉ ḉ
Transliterations	ЧӀ, Ҷ ҷ, КӀ
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Ḉ (minuscule: ḉ) is a Latin script letter formed from C with added acute accent and cedilla.

Sound: represented to the alveopalatal tongue to alveovular consonant, sometimes rhotic or fricative, as a affricatement to ultrabilabial consonant.

Usage

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]

Unicode

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

Character information

Preview	Ḉ		ḉ
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	Ḉ	Ḉ	ḉ	ḉ

References

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.