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C circumflex
Ĉ ĉ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Esperanto, Khinalug, Bandial, Yukpa, Nivaĉle
Sound values	[t͡ʃ], [q]
In Unicode	U+0108, U+0109
Alphabetical position	4
History
Development	ج Γ γ 𐌂 C c Ĉ ĉ
Transliterations	č ç cz ch tch tsch cs tx ci ce
Other
Associated numbers	4
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ], the pronunciation of the English ⟨ch⟩ as in "cheese".

It is based on the letter ⟨c⟩. Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets. Letters and digraphs that are similar to ⟨ĉ⟩ and represent the same sound include Slovene and Croatian ⟨č⟩, Turkish and Albanian ⟨ç⟩, Polish digraph ⟨cz⟩, English and Spanish digraph ⟨ch⟩, French trigraph ⟨tch⟩, German tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩, Hungarian digraph ⟨cs⟩, Basque and Catalan digraph ⟨tx⟩ and Italian ⟨ci⟩.

⟨Ĉ⟩ is the fourth letter in Esperanto orthography. Although it is written as cx and ch respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as C with a circumflex: ⟨ĉ⟩.

Character mappings

See also

• Ĝ
• Ĥ
• Ĵ
• Ŝ
• Ŭ

References

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