| C with caron | |||
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| Č č | |||
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| Usage | |||
| Writing system | Latin | ||
| Type | alphabetic | ||
| Language of origin | Czech | ||
| Sound values |
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| Alphabetical position | 5th | ||
| History | |||
| Development |  | ||
| Time period | early 15th century-present | ||
| Transliterations |
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| Writing direction | Left to right | ||
| This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. | |||
The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron, also known as háčekinCzech, mäkčeňinSlovak, kvačicainSerbo-Croatian, and strešicainSlovene) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [t͡ʃ] like the English ch in the word chocolate. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).
The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. In 1830, it was adopted into Gaj's Latin alphabet, which is used in Serbo-Croatian. It is also used in Macedonian, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pomak, and Berber alphabets.[1]
InBerber, Karelian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Sorbian, Skolt Sami, and Lakota alphabets, it is the fourth letter of the alphabet. In Czech, Northern Sami alphabet, Belarusian, and the Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian, the letter is in fifth place. In Slovak it is sixth letter of the alphabet. It is also used in Pashto (equivalent to چ), romanization of Syriac and Saanich.
It is equivalent to ЧinCyrillic and can be used in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, and Bulgarian romanisations. It features more prominently in the Latin alphabets or transliterations of Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian. The letter Č can also be substituted by Ç in the transliterations of Turkic languages, either using the Latin script or the Cyrillic script.
/Č/ is also used in Americanist phonetic notation.
Č is the similar to the Sanskrit च (a palatal sound, although IAST uses the letter c to denote it)
Representation in software follows the same rules as the háček.
| Preview | Č | č | ||
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 268 | U+010C | 269 | U+010D |
| UTF-8 | 196 140 | C4 8C | 196 141 | C4 8D |
| Numeric character reference | Č |
Č |
č |
č |
| Named character reference | Č | č | ||
U+010C (uppercase Č—use Alt 268 for input) and U+010D (lowercase č—use Alt 269 for input) create this character. The combining character U+030C can be placed together with either corC to generally achieve the same visual result.
In text the control sequence \v{c} will work. In math mode, $\check{c}$ also works.
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