U+1E09 "ḉ" Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute Unicode Character
U+1E09 "ḉ" Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute is a composite glyph used in certain Latin-based orthographies to represent a specific phonetic sound, most notably in the transliteration of the Marshallese language where it denotes a voiceless palatalized velar stop. This character combines a lowercase Latin C with a cedilla diacritic placed underneath and an acute accent above, and it was encoded in Unicode version 1.1 as part of the Latin Extended Additional block to support the precise representation of distinct linguistic tones or consonant variants not covered by standard alphabets. Its use is rare and primarily confined to scholarly or specialized writing systems, providing a visual distinction from the more common characters like ç or ć.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E09 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ç" U+00E7 Latin Small Letter C with Cedilla "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ḉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ḉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e09 |
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 | "Ḉ" U+1E08 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ḉ" U+1E08 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ḉ" U+1E08 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ḉ" U+1E08 Latin Capital Letter C with Cedilla and Acute |
| 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 |