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Ĉ or ĉ (C circumflex) is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound [t͡ʃ].

Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets. Letters and digraphs that are similar to ĉ and represent the same sound include Slovene č, Polish digraph cz, English and Spanish ch, and Italian c before i or e.

Ĉ is also the fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. While it is written as cx in the x-system, it is C with a circumflex (ĉ) when written accented. Dr Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, recommended using ch.

Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-3
Majuscule Ĉ	U+0108	C6
Minuscule ĉ	U+0109	E6

See also

• Ĝ
• Ĥ
• Ĵ
• Ŝ
• Ŭ

The ISO basic Latin alphabetv · d · e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter C with diacritics
Ćć	Ĉĉ	Čč	Ċċ	Çç	Ḉḉ	Ȼȼ	Ƈƈ	ɕ
Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂ )
Ââ	Ĉĉ	Êê	Ĝĝ	Ĥĥ	Î î	Ĵĵ	Ôô	Ŝŝ	Ûû	Ŵŵ	Ŷŷ	Ẑẑ
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