U+010A "Ċ" Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ċ
U+010A "Ċ" Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above is a grapheme used primarily in the orthographies of a few languages, most notably in Maltese where it represents the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate sound similar to the English "ch" in "church." It is also employed in some transliteration systems for Arabic or other scripts to indicate a specific phonetic value, and in older Irish orthography it was occasionally used to denote a lenited "c" sound. The character combines a standard Latin capital C with a combining dot above, and it is distinct from other dotted or accented C variants in Unicode, such as Ć or Ĉ, each serving different linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+010A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter C Dot |
| 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+0307 Combining Dot Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ċ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ċ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x010A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000010A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u010a |
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 | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| Case Folding | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ċ" U+010B Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above |
| 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 |