C

C
C
ISO basic Laitin alphabet
AaBbCcDdEeFfGg
HhIiJjKkLlMmNn
OoPpQqRrSsTtUu
VvWwXxYyZz

Cursive script 'c' and capital 'C' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

C (named cee /ˈs/[1]) is the third letter o the ISO basic Laitin alphabet.

History

"C" an "G" come fae the same letter, baith thocht tae descend fae the Proto-Semitic gimel, wilk itsel mey be fae an Egyptian hieroglyph shawin a staff sling, awtho anither argiment is that it comes fae a hieroglyph shawin a camel[2]. Gimel wis adoptit intae Phoenician as gimel an aw tae shaw the same soond, an fae there intae Greek.

The Etruscan leid didnae contrast voicin wi plosive consonants, sae whan gamma wis taen intae the leid it wis uised tae shaw the soond /k/. At the hinder end it wis makkit intae C and uised in Laitin along wi K an Q an aw for tae shaw the soonds /k/ an /g/, whilk in writin warna differentiatit. In the 3rd yearhunder BC a changit chairacter wis introducit tae shaw the soond /g/, whilk becam G.

Anither letter whilk is leukin like the Laitin C is the Es (С, с) in Cyrillic. Hooiver, this descends fae the Greek lunate sigma.

Proto-Semitic
Gimel
Phoenician 
gimel
Greek
gamma
Etruscan
C
Roman
C

Computin codes

CharacterCc
Unicode nameLAITIN CAIPITAL LETTER CLAITIN SMAW LETTER C
Encodinsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode67U+004399U+0063
UTF-867439963
Numeric chairacter referenceCCcc
EBCDIC family195C313183
ASCII 167439963
1 For encodins based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh families o encodins forby.

Ither representations

NATO phoneticMorse code
Charlie–·–·
Seegnal bannerBanner semaphoreAmerican manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)Braille
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References

Freemit airtins


The ISO basic Laitin alphabet
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
Letter C with diacritics
ĆćĈĉČčĊċÇçḈḉȻȼƇƈɕ
Related
  • Derivations
  • Diacritics
  • History
  • ISO/IEC 646
  • Leet o letters
  • Numerals
  • Palaeography
  • Punctuation
  • Unicode