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Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to the voiceless postalveolar affricate, IPA: [tʃ], or the voiceless retroflex affricate, [tʂ]
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 č, English and Spanish ch, and Italian c before i or e.
Ĉ is also the fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. While it is written as cx in the x-system, it is C with a circumflex (ĉ) when written accented. Dr Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, always recomended using ch.
[edit] Character mappings
| Charset | Unicode | ISO 8859-3 |
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| Majuscule Ĉ | U+0108 | C6 |
| Minuscule ĉ | U+0109 | E6 |
[edit] See also
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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Letter C with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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