U+00E7 "ç" Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla Unicode Character

U+00E7 "ç" Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla is a distinct typographic symbol derived from the Latin alphabet, formed by adding a cedilla diacritic mark under the letter C. It is primarily used in several languages, including French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Turkish, where it represents a soft "s" sound, as in the French word "français" or the Portuguese "coração." This character ensures accurate spelling and pronunciation, distinguishing words that would otherwise be ambiguous, and is encoded in Unicode to maintain digital consistency across platforms for global text processing and communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+00E7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter C Cedilla
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C "̧" U+0327 Combining Cedilla

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ç
HTML Hex Encoding	ç
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC3 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00E7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000E7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00e7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ç" U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ç" U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla
Uppercase Code Point	"Ç" U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla
Titlecase Code Point	"Ç" U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower