U+010B "ċ" Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+010B "ċ" Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above is a specialized Latin letter used primarily in certain orthographic systems, most notably in the Maltese language where it represents the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate sound similar to the English "ch" in "church". It is also employed in the romanization of Arabic and other languages to denote a specific consonant, and its formation involves placing a combining dot above a standard lowercase "c". This character is distinct from the more common "c" and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support accurate digital representation of these linguistic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+010B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter C with Dot Above
Unicode 1.0 Name	Latin Small Letter C Dot
Block	Latin Extended-A
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+0307 Combining Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ċ
HTML Hex Encoding	ċ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC4 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x010B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000010B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u010b

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	"Ċ" U+010A Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ċ" U+010A Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above
Uppercase Code Point	"Ċ" U+010A Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above
Titlecase Code Point	"Ċ" U+010A Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above
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