U+023B "Ȼ" Latin Capital Letter C with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ȼ
U+023B "Ȼ" Latin Capital Letter C with Stroke is a modified version of the letter C that includes a horizontal line or stroke through its middle, a design often used in phonetic transcription to represent a voiceless palatal fricative or similar sounds in certain linguistic contexts. Beyond phonetic alphabets, this character is also employed as a symbol for the centavo or other currency units in some languages, and it can appear in academic or technical writing where a distinct representation of the letter C is needed for clarity. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation and exchange of this specialized character across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+023B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Stroke |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ȼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ȼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC8 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x023B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000023B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u023b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| Simple Case Folding | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| Case Folding | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ȼ" U+023C Latin Small Letter C with Stroke |
| 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 |