U+00B8 "¸" Cedilla Unicode Character

U+00B8 "¸" Cedilla is a small, hook shaped diacritical mark placed beneath certain letters in various languages to alter their pronunciation, most commonly seen under the letter "c" to form "ç" in French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Turkish, where it signals a soft "s" sound rather than a hard "k" sound. It originates from the Spanish word for "little z" and historically evolved from a subscript z used in medieval Latin script. In digital text, this character is distinct from the similarly shaped comma or other diacritics and is encoded as a combining mark when paired with a base letter, though as a standalone symbol it can also appear in mathematical or typographic contexts.