Latin Small Letter C With Cedilla
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0231 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter c with cedilla.
- Alt code
- Alt+0231
- HTML entity
- ç
- Unicode
- U+00E7
About this symbol
The hook under ç is a cedilla, Old Spanish for “little z”, because it began as the lower half of a handwritten z. It tells you to say c as s before a, o or u, as in the French garçon.
Spanish, where it began, dropped ç in the eighteenth century. It lives on in French, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish and Albanian.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Accented Latin Letters chart for related characters.