c

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The Universal Character Set


Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER C
Basic Latin	U+0063

See also C, and Appendix:Variations of "c"

Translingual

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Etymology 1

Modification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan 𐌂 (C), from Greek Γ (G), “‘Gamma’”), from Phoenician 𐤂 (G), “‘gimmel’”).

Letter

c lower case (upper case C)

The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Usage notes

In many many languages, the letter c represents both a “hard” /k/ sound and a “soft” sound (/s/, /ts/, /tʃ/, or /θ/), based on the following letter.
In many languages, it occurs frequently in the digraph with ch.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents a voiceless palatal plosive.
In some romanization systems of non-Latin scripts, it represents /tʃ/, /θ/, or /tsʰ/.

Etymology 2

Lower case form of upper case roman numeral C, 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 (lower case Roman numeral, upper case C)

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

Etymology 3

From Latin celeritās (“‘speed’”).

Symbol

c

(physics) The speed of light, 2.99792458 × 10⁸ m/s.