The grapheme Čč (Latin C with háček) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [tʃ] not unlike English ch in the word chocolate. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).
The symbol originates with the 15th century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. From there, it was adopted into the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet, Croatian alphabet by Ljudevit Gaj in 1830, and it also figures in the Slovak, Slovenian and Bosnian alphabets.
In Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian and Sorbian alphabets, as well as the Latin forms of Serbian and Macedonian, it is the fourth letter of the alphabet and represents voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [tʃ]. It is equivalent to Ч in the Cyrillic alphabet or the digraph ch in the Spanish alphabet, and is sometimes used in Ukranian, Russian, and Bulgarian romanisations.
It is the fifth letter of the Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian and also represents [tʃ].
It is also used in phonetic transcription.
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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Letter C with diacritics
Letters using caron sign
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