Ȼ (minuscule: ȼ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a stroke through the letter. Its minuscule form represents the sound [ts] (ts as in cats) in certain phonetic transcription systems for the indigenous languages of Mexico, and the Saanich alphabet uses its majuscule form (the alphabet is caseless) for [kʷ] (qu as in quilt), and in Unifon, a phonemic transcription for American English; where it represents the sound of Ч.
Use on computers
Ȼ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, in the Latin Extended-B block.3 It did previously not exist in character sets, and consequently, few fonts can display it. The cent sign is often substituted for it instead.
Character information| Preview | Ȼ | ȼ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH STROKE | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 571 | U+023B | 572 | U+023C |
| UTF-8 | 200 187 | C8 BB | 200 188 | C8 BC |
| Numeric character reference | Ȼ | Ȼ | ȼ | ȼ |
See also
- ¢ the symbol for cent
- ₵, the symbol for the Ghanaian cedi
- ₡, the symbol for the Salvadoran and Costa Rican colón
References
"Phonetic symbols for consonants | SIL Mexico". mexico.sil.org. Retrieved 2022-07-20. https://mexico.sil.org/publications/articulation/phonetic-symbols-consonants ↩
"How to pronounce SENĆOŦEN". saanich.montler.net. Retrieved 2022-07-20. http://saanich.montler.net/say/index.htm ↩
"Latin Extended-B. Range: 0180–024F". The Unicode Standard 14.0 (PDF). Unicode, Inc. 2021. https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf ↩