U+010A "Ċ" Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above Unicode Character

U+010A "Ċ" Latin Capital Letter C with Dot Above is a grapheme used primarily in the orthographies of a few languages, most notably in Maltese where it represents the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate sound similar to the English "ch" in "church." It is also employed in some transliteration systems for Arabic or other scripts to indicate a specific phonetic value, and in older Irish orthography it was occasionally used to denote a lenited "c" sound. The character combines a standard Latin capital C with a combining dot above, and it is distinct from other dotted or accented C variants in Unicode, such as Ć or Ĉ, each serving different linguistic purposes.