Č

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The grapheme Čč (Latin C with háček) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [tʃ] not unlike English ch in the word chocolate. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).

Contents 1 Origin 2 Uses 3 Software 3.1 Unicode 3.2 TeX/LaTeX 4 See also

[edit] Origin

The symbol originates with the 15th century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. From there, it was adopted into the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet, Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830, and it also figures in the Slovak, Slovenian and Bosnian alphabets.

[edit] Uses

In Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian and Sorbian alphabets, as well as the Latin forms of Serbian and Macedonian, it is the fourth letter of the alphabet and represents voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [tʃ]. It is equivalent to Ч in the Cyrillic alphabet or the digraph ch in the Spanish alphabet, and is sometimes used in Ukranian, Russian, and Bulgarian romanisations.

It is the fifth letter of the Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and also represents [tʃ].

It is also used in phonetic transcription.

[edit] Software

Representation in software follows the same rules as the háček.

[edit] Unicode

U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č) create this character. By using the combining character (U+030C) can be placed together with either c or C to generally achieve the same visual result.

[edit] TeX/LaTeX

In text the control sequence \v{c} will work. In math mode, $\check{c}$ also works.

[edit] See also

• Ć
• Cz (digraph)
• Ch (digraph)

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