U+1E08 "Ḉ" Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute Unicode Character
U+1E08 "Ḉ" Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute is a composite glyph used primarily in certain Latin-based orthographies, such as in the transliteration or scholarly transcription of languages like Sanskrit or other Indic scripts, where it represents a specific consonant sound modified by a diacritical mark indicating a combining cedilla below and an acute accent above. The cedilla below typically denotes a palatal or affricate pronunciation shift from the standard /k/ sound, while the acute accent above signals a high or rising tonal quality or stress in phonetic contexts. This character is encoded in Unicode as a single precomposed form for consistency and compatibility, allowing digital text to preserve the precise phonetic distinctions required in linguistic documentation or specialized typesetting without relying on separate combining marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E08 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ç" U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e08 |
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 | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḉ" U+1E09 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| 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 |