U+00B8 "¸" Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00B8 "¸" Cedilla is a small, hook shaped diacritical mark placed beneath certain letters in various languages to alter their pronunciation, most commonly seen under the letter "c" to form "ç" in French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Turkish, where it signals a soft "s" sound rather than a hard "k" sound. It originates from the Spanish word for "little z" and historically evolved from a subscript z used in medieval Latin script. In digital text, this character is distinct from the similarly shaped comma or other diacritics and is encoded as a combining mark when paired with a base letter, though as a standalone symbol it can also appear in mathematical or typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00B8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Spacing Cedilla |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Modifier Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "SP" U+0020 Space "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ¸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ¸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00b8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "SP" U+0020 Space "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Other |