U+0108 "Ĉ" Latin Capital Letter C with Circumflex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ĉ
U+0108 "Ĉ" Latin Capital Letter C with Circumflex is a distinct grapheme used primarily in the Esperanto alphabet, where it represents the sound /tʃ/ as in the English "ch" in "church," and it is also employed in some romanization systems for languages like Kurdish and certain African languages to denote a similar affricate or palatal sound. The circumflex diacritic above the letter C modifies its phonetic value, distinguishing it from the standard Latin C and allowing for precise transcription of sounds not native to typical Latin script. This character resides in the Latin Extended-A block of Unicode, ensuring its proper rendering across digital platforms and text systems that support international characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0108 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Circumflex |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter C Circumflex |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| 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+0302 Combining Circumflex Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ĉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ĉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0108 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000108 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0108 |
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 | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| Simple Case Folding | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| Case Folding | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ĉ" U+0109 Latin Small Letter C with Circumflex |
| 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 |