Editing Ĉ

{{short description|Latin letter C with circumflex; used in Esperanto}}
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{{Infobox grapheme
| name = C [[circumflex]]
| letter = Ĉ ĉ
| image = Latin letter C with circumflex.svg
| imageclass = skin-invert-image
| script = [[Latin script]]
| type = [[Alphabet]]
| typedesc = ic
| language = [[Esperanto]], [[Mandarin language|Mandarin]]
| phonemes = [{{IPAlink|t͡ʃ}}]
| unicode = U+0108, U+0109
| alphanumber = 4
| number = 4
| fam1 = [[File:Camelus bactrianus-sil.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Pictogram of a Camel]]
| fam2 = <hiero>T14</hiero>
| fam3 = [[Image:Proto-semiticG-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel]]
| fam4 = [[Image:phoenician gimel.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Gimel]]
| fam5 = [[File:Greek Gamma 03.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Gamma]]
| fam6 = [[File:Early Etruscan C.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Etruscan C]]
| fam7 = [[ج]]
| fam8 = [[Gamma|Γ γ]]
| fam9 = [[𐌂]]
| fam10 = [[C|C c]]
| equivalents = {{flex list|č|ç|cz|ch|tch|tsch|cs|tx|ci|ce}}
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'''Ĉ''' or '''ĉ''' (C [[circumflex]]) is a [[consonant]] in [[Esperanto orthography]], representing the sound {{IPAblink|t͡ʃ}}, the pronunciation of the English {{angbr|ch}} as in "'''ch'''eese".<ref name="compart">{{cite web|url= https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0108|title=Unicode Character “Ĉ” (U+0108)|work=Compart |publisher=Compart AG | place= Oak Brook, IL|date=2021 |accessdate=2024-02-17}}</ref>

It is based on the letter ⟨[[c]]⟩. Esperanto orthography uses a [[diacritic]] for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] alphabets. Letters and [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]]s that are similar to ⟨ĉ⟩ and represent the same sound include [[Slovenian language|Slovene]] and [[Croatian language|Croatian]] ⟨č⟩'','' [[Albanian language|Albanian]] ⟨ç⟩, [[Polish language|Polish]] digraph ⟨cz⟩,  [[English language|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] digraph ⟨ch⟩, [[French language|French]] trigraph ⟨tch⟩, [[German language|German]] [[tetragraph]] ⟨tsch⟩, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] digraph ⟨cs⟩, [[Basque language|Basque]] and [[Catalan language|Catalan]] digraph ⟨tx⟩ and [[Italian language|Italian]] ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨e⟩.

{{H-system|⟨Ĉ⟩|⟨ĉ⟩|⟨C⟩|⟨c⟩|fourth}}

==Character mappings==
{{charmap
| 0108 | name1 = LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
| 0109| name2 = LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
}}

==See also==
* [[Ĝ]]
* [[Ĥ]]
* [[Ĵ]]
* [[Ŝ]]
* [[Ŭ]]

==References==
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