The C with bar (
majuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
: Ꞓ,
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
: ꞓ), also known as barred C, is a modified letter of the
Latin alphabet, formed from
C with the addition of a
bar. It was used in the final version of the
Unified Northern Alphabet, approved in 1932, for
Saami
The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI, pronounced "Sammy") is an association of American manufacturers of firearms, ammunition, and components. SAAMI is an accredited standards developer that publishes several Americ ...
,
Selkup,
Khanty,
Evenki,
Even,
Nanai,
Udege,
Chukchi,
Koryak and
Nivkh languages
to denote the sound , although in some of these languages in practice, several other alphabets were used. Also, this letter was used in the
Latinized Shugnan alphabet (1931-1939) to denote the sound .
The United States
Federal Geographic Data Committee
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is a United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. Its 32 members are representatives from the E ...
uses the capital barred C to represent the
Cambrian Period
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
in geologic history. In
phonetic transcription, the lowercase barred C may denote a
voiceless palatal fricative (
IPA: ), and in 1963, it was proposed as a symbol for a voiceless flat postalveolar fricative by
William A. Smalley.
In 19th-century American English dictionaries such as those by
Noah Webster and
William Holmes McGuffey, the letter was used to denote pronounced as .
Computer encoding
Its
Unicode codepoints are and .
See also
*
Ukrainian Ye
Ukrainian Ye (Є є; italics: ) is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is a separate letter in the Ukrainian alphabet (8th position since 1992, 7th position before then), the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, and both the Carpathian Rusyn al ...
(Є є)
References
{{Latin script, C, stroke
Latin letters with diacritics
Phonetic transcription symbols