U+010C "Č" Latin Capital Letter C with Caron Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Č
U+010C "Č" Latin Capital Letter C with Caron is a modified version of the standard Latin letter C, featuring a caron or háček diacritic above it. This character is used in several languages, including Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian, where it typically represents a voiceless postalveolar affricate sound similar to the "ch" in the English word "church." It appears in various formal and informal contexts, from proper names and place names to everyday writing in these languages. The addition of the caron distinguishes it from the plain C, enabling precise phonetic representation and preserving orthographic clarity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+010C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter C Hacek |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Č |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Č |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x010C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000010C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u010c |
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 | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| Case Folding | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "č" U+010D Latin Small Letter C with Caron |
| 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 |