عرض مصدر قالب:C/شرح

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{{Infobox grapheme
|name = C
|letter = C c
|variations=([[C#Related characters|See below]])
|image=File:C cursiva.gif
|imagesize=200px
|imagealt=Writing cursive forms of C
|script=[[Latin script]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|typedesc=ic
|language=[[لاتينى]]
|phonemes={{grid list|[{{IPAlink|c}}]|[{{IPAlink|k}}]|[{{IPAlink|t͡ʃ}}]|[{{IPAlink|t͡s}}({{IPAlink|ʰ}})]|[{{IPAlink|d͡ʒ}}]|[{{IPAlink|ʃ}}]|[{{IPAlink|s|s̝}}]|[{{IPAlink|ʕ}}]|[{{IPAlink|ʔ}}]|[{{IPAlink|θ}}]|Others}}
|unicode=U+0043, U+0063
|alphanumber=3
|number=[[Roman numerals|100]]
|fam1=[[ملف:Camelus bactrianus-sil.svg|20px|Pictogram of a Camel]]
|fam2=<hiero>T14</hiero>
|fam3=[[ملف:Proto-semiticG-01.svg|20px|Gimel]]
|fam4=[[ملف:Phoenician gimel.svg|20px|Gimel]]
|fam5=[[ملف:Greek Gamma 03.svg|20px|Early Greek Gamma]]
|fam6=[[ملف:Early Etruscan C.svg|20px|Early Etruscan C]]
|fam7=[[Gamma|Γ γ]]
|fam8=[[𐌂]]
}}
{{Latin letter info|c}}
[[ملف:Copyright.svg|thumb|right|100px|'''C''' in [[copyright symbol]]

'''C''', or '''c''', is the third [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] in the [[Latin alphabet]], used in the [[English alphabet|modern English alphabet]], the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is [[English alphabet#Letter names|''cee'']] (pronounced {{IPAc-en|'|s|iː}}), plural ''cees''.<ref>"C" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "cee", ''op. cit.''</ref>

== History ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Egyptian
! Phoenician <br />''[[gimel|gaml]]''
! Greek<br />''[[Gamma]]''
! Etruscan<br />C
! Old Latin<br />C (G)
! [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] <br />C
|- style="color:#000000;background:white; text-align:center;"
| {{align|center|<hiero>T14</hiero>}}
|[[ملف:Phoenician gimel.svg|30px|Phoenician gimel]]
|[[ملف:Gamma uc lc.svg|55px|Greek Gamma]]
|[[ملف:EtruscanC-01.svg|30px|Etruscan C]]
|[[ملف:Old Latin G.svg|20px|Old Latin]]
| [[ملف:Capitalis monumentalis C.svg|x20px|Latin C]]
|}
"C" comes from the same letter as "G". The [[Semitic people|Semites]] named it [[gimel]]. The sign is possibly adapted from an [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian hieroglyph]] for a [[Staff-sling|staff sling]], which may have been the meaning of the name ''gimel''. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was ''gamal''. [[Barry B. Powell]], a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)".<ref>{{cite book|last=Powell|first=Barry B.|title=Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization|date=27 Mar 2009|publisher=Wiley Blackwell|isbn=978-1405162562|page=182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZ2Gr3d9X2UC&q=Gimel+shaped+like+a+camel%27s+neck&pg=PA182}}</ref>

In the [[Etruscan language]], [[plosive consonant]]s had no contrastive [[phonation|voicing]], so the [[Greek language|Greek]] '[[Gamma|Γ]]' (Gamma) was adopted into the [[Old Italic script#Etruscan alphabet|Etruscan alphabet]] to represent {{IPA|/k/}}. Already in the [[Western Greek alphabet]], Gamma first took a '[[ملف:Early Etruscan C.svg|frameless|17x17px]]' form in Early Etruscan, then '[[ملف:Classical Etruscan C.gif|15px]]' in Classical Etruscan. In Latin it eventually took the '{{smallcaps|c}}' form in Classical Latin. In the earliest [[Latin]] inscriptions, the letters '{{smallcaps|c k q}}' were used to represent the sounds {{IPA|/k/}} and {{IPA|/ɡ/}} (which were not differentiated in writing).  Of these, '{{smallcaps|q}}' was used to represent {{IPA|/k/}} or {{IPA|/ɡ/}} before a rounded vowel, '{{smallcaps|k}}' before '{{smallcaps|a}}', and '{{smallcaps|c}}' elsewhere.<ref>{{cite book
|title=New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin
|first=Andrew L.
|last=Sihler
|edition=illustrated
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|year=1995
|location=New York
|isbn=0-19-508345-8
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeHmqKY2BqoC
|page=21
}}</ref>  During the 3rd century BC, a modified character was introduced for {{IPA|/ɡ/}}, and '{{smallcaps|c}}' itself was retained for {{IPA|/k/}}. The use of '{{smallcaps|c}}' (and its variant '{{smallcaps|g}}') replaced most usages of '{{smallcaps|k}}' and '{{smallcaps|q}}'.  Hence, in the classical period and after, '{{smallcaps|g}}' was treated as the equivalent of Greek gamma, and '{{smallcaps|c}}' as the equivalent of kappa; this shows in the romanization of Greek words, as in 'ΚΑΔΜΟΣ', 'ΚΥΡΟΣ', and 'ΦΩΚΙΣ' came into Latin as '{{smallcaps|cadmvs}}', '{{smallcaps|cyrvs}}' and '{{smallcaps|phocis}}', respectively.

Other alphabets have letters [[homoglyph]]ic to 'c' but not analogous in use and derivation, like the [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] letter [[Es (Cyrillic)|Es]] (С, с) which derives from the lunate [[sigma (letter)|sigma]], named due to its resemblance to the crescent moon.

== Later use ==
When the Roman alphabet was introduced into Britain, {{angbr|c}} represented only {{IPA|/k/}}, and this value of the letter has been retained in loanwords to all the [[insular Celtic languages]]: in [[Welsh language|Welsh]],<ref>{{مرجع ويب|url=http://www.mit.edu/people/dfm/canol/chap29.html|title=Reading Middle Welsh -- 29 Medieval Spelling|website=www.mit.edu|access-date=2019-11-19}}</ref> [[Irish language|Irish]], and [[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]], {{angbr|c}} represents only {{IPA|/k/}}. The [[Old English Latin alphabet|Old English Latin-based writing system]] was learned from the Celts, apparently of Ireland; hence {{angbr|c}} in Old English also originally represented {{IPA|/k/}}; the Modern English words ''kin, break, broken, thick'', and ''seek'' all come from Old English words written with {{angbr|c}}: {{lang|ang|cyn, brecan, brocen, þicc}}, and {{lang|ang|séoc}}. However, during the course of the Old English period, {{IPA|/k/}} before front vowels ({{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/i/}}) were [[Palatalization (sound change)|palatalized]], having changed by the tenth century to {{IPA|[tʃ]}}, though {{angbr|c}} was still used, as in {{lang|ang|cir(i)ce, wrecc(e)a}}. On the continent, meanwhile, a similar phonetic change before the same two vowels had also been going on almost all modern romance languages (for example, in [[Italian language|Italian]]).

In Vulgar Latin, {{IPA|/k/}} became palatalized to {{IPA|[tʃ]}} in Italy and Dalmatia; in France and the Iberian peninsula, it became {{IPA|[ts]}}. Yet for these new sounds {{angbr|{{sm|c}}}} was still used before the letters {{angbr|e}} and {{angbr|i}}.  The letter thus represented two distinct values. Subsequently, the Latin phoneme {{IPA|/k<sup>w</sup>/}} (spelled {{angbr|{{smallcaps|qv}}}}) de-labialized to {{IPA|/k/}} meaning that the various Romance languages had {{IPA|/k/}} before front vowels.  In addition, [[Norman language|Norman]] used the letter {{angbr|k}} so that the sound {{IPA|/k/}} could be represented by either {{angbr|k}} or {{angbr|c}}, the latter of which could represent either {{IPA|/k/}} or {{IPA|/ts/}} depending on whether it preceded a front vowel letter or not. The convention of using both {{angbr|c}} and {{angbr|k}} was applied to the writing of English after the [[Norman Conquest]], causing a considerable re-spelling of the Old English words. Thus while Old English {{lang|ang|candel, clif, corn, crop, cú}}, remained unchanged, {{lang|ang|Cent, cǣᵹ (cēᵹ), cyng, brece, sēoce}}, were now (without any change of sound) spelled {{lang|enm|Kent, keȝ, kyng, breke}}, and {{lang|enm|seoke}}; even {{lang|ang|cniht}} ('knight') was subsequently changed to {{lang|enm|kniht}} and {{lang|ang|þic}} ('thick') changed to {{lang|enm|thik}} or {{lang|enm|thikk}}. The Old English {{angbr|cw}} was also at length displaced by the French {{angbr|qu}} so that the Old English {{lang|ang|cwēn}} ('queen') and {{lang|ang|cwic}} ('quick') became [[Middle English]] {{lang|enm|quen}} and {{lang|enm|quik}}, respectively. The sound {{IPA|[tʃ]}}, to which Old English palatalized {{IPA|/k/}} had advanced, also occurred in French, chiefly from Latin {{IPA|/k/}} before {{angbr|a}}. In French it was represented by the digraph {{angbr|ch}}, as in ''champ'' (from Latin {{lang|la|camp-um}}) and this spelling was introduced into English: the Hatton Gospels, written {{circa|1160}}, have in Matt. i-iii, {{lang|enm|child, chyld, riche, mychel}}, for the {{lang|ang|cild, rice, mycel,}} of the Old English version whence they were copied. In these cases, the Old English {{angbr|c}} gave way to {{angbr|k}}, {{angbr|qu}} and {{angbr|ch}}; on the other hand, {{angbr|c}} in its new value of {{IPA|/ts/}} appeared largely in French words like {{lang|xno|processiun, emperice}} and {{lang|xno|grace}}, and was also substituted for {{angbr|ts}} in a few Old English words, as {{lang|ang|miltse, bletsien}}, in early Middle English {{lang|enm|milce, blecien}}. By the end of the thirteenth century both in France and England, this sound {{IPA|/ts/}} de-affricated to {{IPA|/s/}}; and from that time {{angbr|c}} has represented {{IPA|/s/}} before front vowels either for [[etymology|etymological]] reasons, as in ''lance, cent'', or to avoid the ambiguity due to the "etymological" use of {{angbr|s}} for {{IPA|/z/}}, as in ''ace, mice, once, pence, defence''.

Thus, to show etymology, English spelling has ''advise'', ''devise'' (instead of ''*advize'', ''*devize''), while ''advice, device, dice, ice, mice, twice'', etc., do not reflect etymology; example has extended this to ''hence, pence, defence'', etc., where there is no etymological reason for using {{angbr|c}}. Former generations also wrote ''sence'' for ''sense''. Hence, today the [[Romance languages]] and [[English language|English]] have a common feature inherited from [[Vulgar Latin]] spelling conventions where {{angbr|c}} takes on either a [[Hard and soft C|"hard" or "soft"]] value depending on the following letter.

== Pronunciation and use ==
{{شوف كمان |Hard and soft C}}
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pronunciations of Cc
! colspan="5" |Most common pronunciation: {{IPAslink|k}}
''Languages in italics do not use the [[Latin alphabet]]''
|-
!Language
!Dialect(s)
!Pronunciation ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]])
!Environment
!Notes
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه البانى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
![[لغه عربى]]
!''Árabe cipriota''
|{{IPAslink|ʕ}}
|
|Latinização
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Azeri]]
|{{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه امازيغى]]
|{{IPAslink|ʃ}}
|
|Latinização
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Língua bukawa|Bukawa]]
|{{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[كاتالانى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[كريمتتارى]]
|{{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الكورنيه]]
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|
|Formulário Escrito Padrão
|-
! colspan="2" |[[تشيكى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[دنماركى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, i, y, æ, ø
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="3" |[[نيديرلاندى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
| Antes de e, i, y
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|Antes de e,i,y
|em empréstimos do italiano
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[انجليزى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
| Antes de e, i, y
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الفيجيه]]
|{{IPAslink|ð}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[Língua filipina|Filipino]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[فرنساوى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
| Antes de e, i, y
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[língua fula|Fula]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الغاغاوزيه]]
|{{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="3" |[[جاليجو]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|θ}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, eu
|em áreas Seseu
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الهوسيه]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه مجرى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الاندونيسيه]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[ايرلاندى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|c}}
|Antes de e, i; ou depois que eu
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[لغه طليانى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
![[Língua curda|Curdo]]
![[Kurmanji]]
|{{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لاتفى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[ملايوى]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
![[Mandarim]]
!Chinês padrão
|{{IPAslink|tsʰ}}
|
|[[پينيپين]] latinização
|-
! colspan="2" |[[língua mandinga|Mandingo]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه بولاندى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[لغه رومانى]]
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[الرومانشيه]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[الغيليه الاسكتلنديه]]
|{{IPAslink|kʰ}}
|
|
|-
|kʰʲ
|Antes de e, i; ou depois que eu
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[صربى- كرواتى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[سلوڤاكى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه سلوڤينى]]
|{{IPAslink|ts}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الصوماليه]]
|{{IPAslink|ʕ}}
|
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[لغه اسبانى]]
!Tudo
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
!Maior parte do Espanhol europeu
|{{IPAslink|θ}}
| Antes de e, i, y
|
|-
![[لغه اسبانى]], da [[اندلوسيا]], das [[جزر الكنارى]]
|{{IPAslink|s}}
| Antes de e, i, y
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[سويدى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, i, y, ä, ö
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[تتارى]]
|{{IPAslink|ʑ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[توركى]]
|{{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[língua valenciana|Valenciano]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|s}}
|Antes de e, eu
|
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="3" |[[ڤييتنامى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
||k̚
|Palavra-final
|
|-
|{{IPAslink|kp}}
| Palavra-final depois de u, ô, o
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[لغه ويلزى]]
|{{IPAslink|k}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الكوسيه]]
|{{IPAslink|ǀ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[língua yabem|Yabem]]
|{{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Yup'ik do Alasca central
|{{IPAslink|tʃ}}
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[الزولويه]]
|{{IPAslink|ǀ}}
|
|
|}

== Related characters ==
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=== Ancestors, descendants and siblings ===
[[ملف:Porvoo.vaakuna.svg|thumb|upright|A curled C in the coat of arms of [[Porvoo]]
*𐤂 : [[Phoenician alphabet|Semitic]] letter [[Gimel]], from which the following symbols originally derive
**{{lang|el|Γ γ}} : [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] letter [[Gamma]], from which C derives
***G g : Latin letter [[G]], which is derived from Latin C
****Ȝ ȝ : Latin letter [[Ȝ]], which is derived from Latin G
*[[Phonetic transcription#Alphabetic|Phonetic alphabet]] symbols related to C:
**{{IPA link|ɕ}} : Small c with curl
**ʗ : [[ʗ|Stretched c]]
**𝼏 : [[𝼏|Stretched c with curl]] - Used by Douglas Beach for a [[Click letter|nasal click]] in his phonetic description of [[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoe]]<ref>{{مرجع ويب|title=L2/20-115R: Unicode request for additional phonetic click letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20115r-click-letters.pdf|date=2020-07-10|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Bonny|last2=Sands}}</ref>
**𝼝 : Small letter c with retroflex hook - Para-IPA version of the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] retroflex tʂ<ref>{{مرجع ويب|title=L2/21-041: Unicode request for additional para-IPA letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21041-add-para-ipa-ltr.pdf|date=2021-01-11|first=Kirk|last=Miller}}</ref>
**ꟲ : Modifier letter capital c - Used to mark tone for the [[Chatino language|Chatino]] orthography in Oaxaca, Mexico; Used as a generic transcription for a falling tone; Used in para-[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] notation<ref>{{مرجع ويب|title=L2/20-251: Unicode request for modifier Latin capital letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20251-mod-latin.pdf|date=2020-09-25|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Craig|last2=Cornelius}}</ref>
*[[ᶜ]] : Modifier letter small c<ref name="L204132">{{مرجع ويب|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf|title=L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS|date=2004-04-19|first=Peter|last=Constable}}</ref>
*[[ᶝ]] : Modifier letter small c with curl<ref name="L204132"/>
*ᴄ : Small capital c is used in the [[Uralic Phonetic Alphabet]].<ref>{{مرجع ويب|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02141-n2419-uralic-phonetic.pdf|title=L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS|date=2002-03-20|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|author-link1=Michael Everson|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
*Ꞔ ꞔ : C with palatal hook, used for writing [[Mandarin Chinese]] using the early draft version of [[پينيپين]] romanization during the mid-1950s<ref>{{مرجع ويب|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17013-n4782-latin.pdf|title=L2/17-013: Proposal to encode three uppercase Latin letters used in early Pinyin|date=2017-01-16|first1=Andrew|last1=West|author-link=Andrew West (linguist)|first2=Eiso|last2=Chan|first3=Michael|last3=Everson|author-link3=Michael Everson}}</ref>
Add to C with diacritics
*C with [[diacritic]]s: [[Ć|Ć ć]] [[Ĉ|Ĉ ĉ]] [[Č|Č č]] [[Ċ|Ċ ċ]] [[Ḉ|Ḉ ḉ]] [[Ƈ|Ƈ ƈ]] [[C̈|C̈ c̈]] [[Ȼ|Ȼ ȼ]] [[Ç|Ç ç]] Ꞔ [[ꞔ]] [[Ꞓ|Ꞓ ꞓ]]
*Ↄ ↄ : [[Claudian letters]]<ref>{{مرجع ويب|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05193r2-n2960r2-claudian.pdf|title=L2/05-193R2: Proposal to add Claudian Latin letters to the UCS|date=2005-08-12|first=Michael|last=Everson}}</ref>

=== Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols ===
*© : [[©|copyright symbol]]
*℃ : [[℃|degree Celsius]]
*¢ : [[¢|cent]]
*₡ : [[₡|colón (currency)]]
*₢ : [[₢|Brazilian cruzeiro (currency)]]
*₵ : [[₵|Ghana cedi (currency)]]
*₠ : [[European Currency Unit]] CE
*<math>\mathbb{C}</math> : [[blackboard bold]] C, denoting the [[complex number]]s
*ℭ : [[ℭ|blackletter C]]
*Ꜿ ꜿ : [[Middle Ages|Medieval]] abbreviation for [[Latin]] syllables con- and com-, [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] -us and -os<ref>{{مرجع ويب|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf|title=L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS|date=2006-01-30|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|first2=Peter|last2=Baker|first3=António|last3=Emiliano|first4=Florian|last4=Grammel|first5=Odd Einar|last5=Haugen|first6=Diana|last6=Luft|first7=Susana|last7=Pedro|first8=Gerd|last8=Schumacher|first9=Andreas|last9=Stötzner}}</ref>

== Code points <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span> ==
These are the [[code point]]s for the forms of the letter in various systems
{{charmap
| 0043 | 0063 | name1 = Latin Capital Letter C | name2 = Latin Small Letter C
| map1 = [[EBCDIC]] family | map1char1 = C3 | map1char2 = 83
| map2 = [[ASCII]] <sup>1</sup> | map2char1 = 43 | map2char2 = 63
}}
: <sup>1</sup> {{midsize|Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.}}

In Unicode, C is also encoded in various font styles for mathematical purposes; see [[Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols]].

== Other representations ==
{{Letter other reps
|NATO=Charlie
|Morse=–·–·
|Character=C3
|Braille=⠉
|fingerspelling=C
}}

== Use as a number ==
In the [[hexadecimal]] (base 16) numbering system, C is a number that corresponds to the number 12 in [[decimal]] (base 10) counting.
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== شوف كمان ==
*[[Hard and soft C]]
*[[Speed of light]], ''c''

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Wikisource1911Enc|C}}
*{{Commons-inline|C}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|C}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|c}}

{{Latin script|C|}}

[[تصنيف:ISO basic Latin letters]]