U+00C7 "Ç" Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00C7 "Ç" Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla is a glyph used in several languages, most notably French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Turkish, to represent a specific "s" sound rather than the hard "k" sound of a standard C. The cedilla, a small hook-shaped mark placed beneath the letter, indicates this alteration in pronunciation, so in French words like "garçon" or "leçon" it signals a soft "s" sound. Originating from the medieval practice of adding a diacritic to modify letter sounds, this character appears in many loanwords and proper names, and it is distinct from other accented or modified Latin letters in the Unicode standard, ensuring consistent digital representation across different systems and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00C7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter C Cedilla |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "C" U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ç |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ç |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00C7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000C7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00c7 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| Simple Case Folding | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| Case Folding | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |