Ĉ

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• č
• ç
• cz
• ch
• tch
• tsch
• cs
• tx
• ci
• ce}idebar

Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ], the pronunciation of the English ⟨ch⟩ as in "cheese".f ="compart"Unicode Character “Ĉ” ccessdate=2024-02-17}}f>

It is based on the letter ⟨c⟩. Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavicand digraphs that are similar to ⟨ĉ⟩ and represent the same sound include [[Slovenian langu uhh tdz ⟨č⟩, Albanian ⟨ç⟩, Polish digraph ⟨cz⟩, English and Spanish diglanguage|Frenchraph ⟨tch⟩, German tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, Hungarian digraph ⟨cs⟩, Basque aage|Catalan]] digraph ⟨tx⟩ and ]] ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨e⟩.

⟨ is the {{{5}}} letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as {{{4}}}x and {{{4}}}h respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as [[{{{3}}}]] with a circumflex: fourth.

Character mappings

Character information

Preview	Ĉ		ĉ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX		LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	264	U+0108	265	U+0109
UTF-8	196 136	C4 88	196 137	C4 89
Numeric character reference	Ĉ	Ĉ	ĉ	ĉ
Named character reference	Ĉ		ĉ

See also

• Ĝ
• Ĥ
• Ĵ
• Ŝ
• Ŭ