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Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ], the pronunciation of the English ⟨ch⟩ as in "cheese".f ="compart"Unicode Character “Ĉ” ccessdate=2024-02-17}}f>
It is based on the letter ⟨c⟩. Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavicand digraphs that are similar to ⟨ĉ⟩ and represent the same sound include [[Slovenian langu uhh tdz ⟨č⟩, Albanian ⟨ç⟩, Polish digraph ⟨cz⟩, English and Spanish diglanguage|Frenchraph ⟨tch⟩, German tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, Hungarian digraph ⟨cs⟩, Basque aage|Catalan]] digraph ⟨tx⟩ and ]] ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨e⟩.
⟨ is the {{{5}}} letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as {{{4}}}x and {{{4}}}h respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as [[{{{3}}}]] with a circumflex: fourth.
Character mappings
[edit]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 |
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Named character reference | Ĉ | ĉ |
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