U+0043 "C" Latin Capital Letter C Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
C
U+0043 "C" Latin Capital Letter C is a fundamental glyph in the Latin alphabet, representing the third letter in English and many other languages. It originates from the Phoenician letter gimel and later the Greek gamma, evolving through the Etruscan and Roman scripts into its familiar curved form. In Unicode, it belongs to the Basic Latin block and is encoded as a single character with the hexadecimal value 0043, often used in programming, text processing, and digital communication as a standard uppercase letter. Its shape is a simple open curve that can appear in various typeface styles, from serif to sans-serif, and it serves roles in abbreviations, chemical symbols like carbon, and mathematical notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0043 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | C |
| HTML Hex Encoding | C |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x43 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0043 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000043 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0043 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| Lowercase Code Point | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| Simple Case Folding | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| Case Folding | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Hex Digit | Yes |
| ASCII Hex Digit | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |