◌̧

See also: ¸, Ç, ç, Ḉ, ḉ, Ḑ, ḑ, Ȩ, ȩ, Ḝ, ḝ, Ģ, ģ, Ḩ, ḩ, Ķ, ķ, Ļ, ļ, M̧, m̧, Ņ, ņ, O̧, o̧, Ŗ, ŗ, Ş, ş, Ţ, ţ, Z̧, z̧, and ◌̦

◌̧ U+0327, ̧ COMBINING CEDILLA ← ◌̦ [U+0326] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̨ → [U+0328]

Translingual

There is a precomposed Unicode character for the IPA letter ⟨ç⟩, but not for the superscript form shown here, which requires the combining cedilla: ⟨ᶜ̧⟩.

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script in Translingual, and found on Z̧/z̧, Ş/ş, Ţ/ţ, Ḑ/ḑ, Ḝ/ḝ and Ḩ/ḩ.

Usage notes

The spacing character U+00B8 ¸ is retained for compatibility with pre-Unicode encodings. It is equivalent to ◌̧ docked to a space, and there is no need for it in modern typography except to refer to itself.

Along with the ogonek and the overstruck tilde ◌̴, the cedilla is one of the few diacritics that contacts a letter and yet is used productively in Unicode, rather than there being a separate Unicode character assigned to each combination of letter and diacritic.

See also

• ç
• Ȩ

English

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
   • 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian‎^[1] (in English), archived from the original on 4 April 2025:

     California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

Albanian

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called bisht (“cedilla”) in Albanian, and found on Ç/ç.

French

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called cédille (“cedilla”) in French, and found on Ç/ç.

Latvian

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called sediļa (“cedilla”), āķītis (“hook”) or mīkstinājuma zīme (“softening mark”) in Latvian, and found on Ģ/ģ, Ķ/ķ, Ļ/ļ and Ņ/ņ.

Usage notes

• Michael Everson stresses the fact that these Latvian letters are derived with a comma not a cedilla, however, by convention their name in ISO standards remains "letter with cedilla." The same applies to Livonian orthography. (See: evertype.com – Latvian)
• Used to mark palatalization: ģ = [ɟ], ķ = [c], ļ = [ʎ], ņ = [ɲ].
• Before 1946, it was also used on r (ŗ), also to mark palatalization, but this usage has since then been abandoned, following current pronunciation tendencies, in which the sound /r/ is no longer palatalizable. However, outside of Latvia, the members of the Latvian diaspora continued to use ŗ, and some still do even today (e.g., the newspaper Brīvā Latvija “Free Latvia,” as can be seen on their website).
• Letters with cedillas are considered as separate letters with different names, and listed in the alphabet after the same letters without a cedilla (i.e., ģ after g, ķ after k, ļ after l, and ņ after n), and also in alphabetized lists (e.g., in dictionaries), like letters with háčeks (č, š, ž), and unlike letters with macrons (ā, ē, ī, ū), which are treated, for alphabetizing purposes, as the same as letters without macrons.

Manx

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called seddag (“cedilla”) or straihleen in Manx, and found on Ç/ç.

Marshallese

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. The letters with cedilla are L‌̧ l‌̧ M̧ m̧ N‌̧ n‌̧ O̧ o̧.

Usage notes

The letters m and o with cedilla are not precomposed; with l and n, the cedilla will display as a comma due to customization for Latvian. The Unicode diacritic therefore needs to be used for Marshallese. In the case of L‌̧ l‌̧ and N‌̧ n‌̧, the zero-width non-joiner is needed for proper display.

Portuguese

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called cedilha (“cedilla”) in Portuguese, and found on Ç/ç.

Usage notes

• In the letter c, forms ç with the sound /s/, in the syllables ça, ço and çu, as in palhaço (“clown”) and caçador (“hunter”).

Turkish

Diacritical mark

◌̧

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called çengel (“cedilla”) in Turkish, and found on Ç/ç and Ş/ş.