Č
Latin letter C with caron
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The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [t͡ʃ] like the English ch in the word chocolate. The caron is known as háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak, kvačica in Serbo-Croatian, and strešica in Slovene. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).
| C with caron | |
|---|---|
| Č č | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Czech, Jarai, Kabyle, Karelian, Lakota, Latvian, Lower Sorbian, Lushootseed, Osage, Silesian, Rade, Romani, Serbo-Croatian, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian, Polish |
| Sound values | |
| Alphabetical position | 5th |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | early 15th century-present |
| Transliterations | |
| Other | |
| Writing direction | Left to right |
Origin
The symbol originates with the 15th-century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. In 1830, it was adopted into Gaj's Latin alphabet, which is used in Serbo-Croatian. It is also used in Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian alphabets, in the Northern-Berber Latin alphabet, and in some proposed orthographies of Pomak.[1]
Uses
In Berber, Karelian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Sorbian, Skolt Sami, and Lakota alphabets, it is the fourth letter of the alphabet. In the Czech, Northern Sami, Belarusian Latin, Lithuanian and Latvian alphabets, the letter is in fifth place. In Slovak, it is the sixth letter of the alphabet. It is also used in some romanisations of Persian and Pashto (equivalent to چ), Syriac latinization and in the Americanist phonetic notation.
It is equivalent to Ч in Cyrillic and can be used in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian romanisations. It features more prominently in the Latin alphabets or transliterations of Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian. The letter Č can also be substituted by Ç in the transliterations of Turkic languages, either using the Latin script or the Cyrillic script.
/Č/ is also used in Americanist phonetic notation.
Č is the similar to the Sanskrit च (a palatal sound, although IAST uses the letter c to denote it)
Software
Representation in software follows the same rules as the háček.
Unicode
| Preview | Č | č | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 268 | U+010C | 269 | U+010D |
| UTF-8 | 196 140 | C4 8C | 196 141 | C4 8D |
| Numeric character reference | Č | Č | č | č |
| Named character reference | Č | č | ||
U+010C (uppercase Č—use Alt 268 for input) and U+010D (lowercase č—use Alt 269 for input) create this character. The combining character U+030C can be placed together with either c or C to generally achieve the same visual result.
TeX/LaTeX
In text the control sequence \v{c} will work. In math mode, $\check{c}$ also works.
Gallery
Hradčanská Prague Metro station
ČZU - Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze logo (English: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
ČD - České dráhy logo (English: Czech Railways)
