C

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
Basic Latin	U+0043

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Letter 1.1.2 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Alternative forms 1.2.2 Numeral 1.2.2.1 Usage notes 1.2.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.2.3 See also 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Symbol 1.4 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 See also 2.3 Symbol 2.4 Noun 2.5 Proper noun 2.6 Derived terms 2.7 See also 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Production 3.3 Letter 3.4 See also 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.2.1 See also 5 Esperanto 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 5.3 See also 6 Finnish 6.1 Noun 7 Italian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Latin 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Romanian 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 9.2.1 Usage notes 10 Slovene 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Letter 11 Spanish 11.1 Letter

Translingual

Etymology 1

From Etruscan 𐌂 (C), from Greek Γ (G), “‘Gamma’”), from Phoenician 𐤂 (G), “‘gimmel’”).

Letter

C upper case (lower case c)

1. The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter C):  Ćć  Ĉĉ  Čč  Ċċ  C̄c̄  Çç  Ḉḉ  Ȼȼ  Ƈƈ  ɕ  ᴄ  Ｃｃ
• (select other variations) Ƈ ₡ ₵ ₢
• Other scripts: Г (G, “‘ge’”), ג (g, “‘gimel’”)
• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "c".
• C on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

A standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum (“‘hundred’”), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

Alternative forms

• C, Ⅽ, ⅽ

Numeral

C (upper case Roman numeral, lower case c)

1. (mathematics) cardinal number one hundred (100).

Usage notes

With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as C, it represents one hundred thousand.

Derived terms

• English: c-note

See also

• Lesser roman numeral symbol: L (“‘50’”)
• Greater roman numeral symbol: D (“‘500’”)
• Roman numerals

Etymology 3

• (element symbol, carbon): abbreviation
• (metrology, coulomb): abbreviation
• (computing, hexadecimal 12): From its position as the twelfth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

Symbol

C

1. (chemistry) carbon.
2. (metrology) Symbol for the coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.
3. (computing, hexadecimal) The digit for 12.

   0x0000000C

4. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine
6. ((stock symbol)) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE

See also

Other representations of C:

NATO phonetic: Charlie Morse code: –·–· Braille: ⠃ ASL Manual: C

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of B, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase C in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /siː/, SAMPA: /si:/

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• Rhymes: -iː

• (phoneme): IPA: /s/, /k/, /tʃ/, /ks/, ...
• Homophones: C, cee, sea, see

Letter

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The letter cee, the third letter of the English alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: B
• Next letter: D

Symbol

C

1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
2. (music) Guitar chord – C – Played 0 1 0 2 3 0.

Noun

C (plural Cs)

1. (programming languages) A particular high-level programming language.
2. (slang) $100; a c-note.
3. (music) A musical note; middle c.
4. An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.

Proper noun

Singular C

Plural -

C

1. (British) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, incorrectly identified in the James Bond literature as "M" ("C" during WW2 was Col. Stewart Menzies - from whence "M")

Derived terms

• C++
• C#
• C major
• c minor
• C plus plus
• C sharp
• middle c

See also

• BCPL

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American Sign Language

Etymology

From French Sign Language sign for the letter C.

Production

This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “C” shape .

Letter

(Stokoe C)

1. The letter C

See also

• Index:American Sign Language/C

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /s/, /k/, /x/, /ks/, ...
• (letter name): IPA: /seː/

Letter

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The letter cee, the third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: B
• Next letter: D

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /tso/
• (phoneme): IPA: /ts/

Letter

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Esperanto alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: B
• Next letter: Ĉ

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Finnish

Noun

C

1. cum laude approbatur

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʃi/, SAMPA: /tSi/

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

C m. and f. inv.

1. The third letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): (Classical Latin) IPA: /k/

Letter

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the classical Latin alphabet.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʧe/

Letter

C (capital, lowercase c)

1. The fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phonemes /k/ and /ʧ/. Preceded by B and followed by D.

Usage notes

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /ʧ/, as in cel /ʧel/ (the) and citesc /ʧi'tesk/ (I read). When followed by "hi" or "he" (chi & che) and in all other cases, it represents /k/.

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Slovene

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Pronunciation

Letter

C (capital, lowercase c)

1. The third letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by B and followed by Č.

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Spanish

Letter

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Spanish alphabet.