Ć

The grapheme Ć (minuscule: ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription. Its Unicode codepoints are U+0106 for Ć and U+0107 for ć.

Writing systemLatin script

Typealphabetic

Language of originLower Sorbian, Polish, Romani, Serbo-Croatian, Silesian, Upper Sorbian

Sound values

• [/tɕ/ ^ⓘ]
• [ts]
• [ʃ]
• [/tʃ/ ^ⓘ]

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C with acute accent
Ć ć
Č č, Ç ç, Ĉ ĉ, Ċ ċ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Lower Sorbian, Polish, Romani, Serbo-Croatian, Silesian, Upper Sorbian
Sound values	[/tɕ/ ⓘ] [ts] [ʃ] [/tʃ/ ⓘ]
In Unicode	U+0106, U+0107
History
Variations	Č č, Ç ç, Ĉ ĉ, Ċ ċ
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The symbol originated in the Polish alphabet (where, in its modern usage, it appears most often at the ends of words) and was adopted by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj into Croatian in the 19th century.^[1] It is the fifth letter of the Polish, Sorbian, and the Latin alphabet of the Croatian language, as well as its slight variant, the Montenegrin Latin alphabet.^[2] It is fourth in the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet and Ukrainian Latynka alphabet.

It is also adopted by Wymysorys, a West-Germanic language spoken in Poland. It is the fifth letter of the Wymysorys alphabet.

The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet equivalent is Ћ (23rd letter). Macedonian uses Ќ as a partial equivalent (24th letter). Other languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet usually represent this sound by the character combination ЧЬ, however it is represented by Ч in Russian and Bulgarian.

The letter is also used in unofficial Belarusian Łacinka and in unofficial Ukrainian Latynka where it represents the palatalized alveolar affricate [t͡sʲ].

In Ladin it represents [tʃ] when preceded by [ʃ] (e.g. desćiarié, [deʃtʃariˈe]).

The letter is also seen in Banat Bulgarian and represents [kʲ] (e.g. Kaćétu, [kakʲetu]).