C with bar
The C with bar (majuscule: Ꞓ, minuscule: ꞓ), also known as barred C, is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet. It was used in also called barred-i, is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from I or i with the addition of a bar. It was used in the orthography of Kildin Sami in the 1930s. It is also used in the orthoraphy of Nanai.[1] Its Unicode codepoints are U+A792 Ꞓ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH BAR and U+A793 ꞓ LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH BAR.
The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses the letter to represent the Cambrian Period in geologic history.[2] In phonetic transcription, the letter was used for a voiceless non-sibilant palato-alveolar fricative and for a voiceless palatal fricative (IPA: [ç]) in the mid-20th century.[3] In 19th-century American English dictionaries by Noah Webster and by William Holmes McGuffey, the letter was used to denote ⟨c⟩ pronounced as /k/.[1]
Computer encoding
| Preview | Ꞓ | ꞓ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH BAR | LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH BAR | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42898 | U+A792 | 42899 | U+A793 |
| UTF-8 | 234 158 146 | EA 9E 92 | 234 158 147 | EA 9E 93 |
| Numeric character reference | Ꞓ |
Ꞓ |
ꞓ |
ꞓ |
See also
- Ukrainian Ye (Є є)
References
- ^ a b Priest, Lorna A.; Iancu, Laurentiu; Everson, Michael (14 October 2010). "Proposal to encode C WITH BAR" (PDF). Unicode.org. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ Federal Geographic Data Committee, ed. (August 2006). FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization FGDC-STD-013-2006 (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Geographic Data Committee. p. A-32-1.
- ^ Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. pp. 28–9. ISBN 0-226-68536-5.