Ĉ

C circumflex
C circumflex
Ĉ ĉ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Esperanto
Phonetic usage	[t͡ʃ]
Unicode codepoint	U+0108, U+0109
Alphabetical position	4; Numerical value: 4
History
Development	ج Γ γ 𐌂 C c Ĉ ĉ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Transliteration equivalents	č; ç; cz; ch; tch; tsch; cs; tx; ci; ce;
Other
Associated numbers	4
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Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ].

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 c before i or e.

Ĉ is the fourth letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as cx and ch respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as C with a circumflex: ĉ.

Character mappings Edit

Character information
Preview	Ĉ		ĉ
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	&Ccirc;		&ccirc;