C

From Etruscan 𐌂 (C), from Greek Γ (G, “Gamma”), from Phoenician 𐤂‎ (G, “gimmel”).

C (lower case c)

1. The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter C):  Ćć  Ĉĉ  Čč  Ċċ  C̄c̄  Çç  Ḉḉ  Ȼȼ  Ƈƈ  ɕ  ᴄ  Ｃｃ
• (select other variations) Ƈ ₡ ₵ ₢
• Other scripts: Г (G, “ge”), ג‎ (g, “gimel”)
• For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "c".
• C on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

A standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum (“hundred”), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

• c, LL, ll

C (upper case Roman numeral, lower case c)

1. Roman numeral hundred (100)
2. (ordinal) the hundredth (100th)

With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as C, it represents one hundred thousand.

• English: c-note

• Lesser roman numeral symbol: L (“50”)
• Greater roman numeral symbol: D (“500”)
• Roman numerals

• (element symbol, carbon): abbreviation
• (metrology, coulomb): abbreviation
• (computing, hexadecimal 12): From its position as the twelfth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

C

1. (chemistry) Carbon.
2. (metrology) Symbol for the coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.
3. (computing, hexadecimal) The digit for 12.

   0x0000000C

4. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine
6. (mathematics) differentiable class

   C¹ functions are differentiable once, and C² functions are twice differentiable

7. (mathematics) denotes the constant of integration

   ${\displaystyle \int \cos x\,dx=\sin x+C}$

8. (physics) capacitance

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of C, in normal and italic type
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase C in Fraktur

Other representations of C:

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /siː/

Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -iː

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/, /k/, /tʃ/, /ks/, /ʃ/, ...
• Homophones: C, cee, sea, see

C (upper case, lower case c, plural Cs or C's)

1. The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

C

1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
2. (music) Guitar chord – C – Played 0 1 0 2 3 0.
3. (entomology) 1-letter abbreviation for costa

C (plural Cs)

1. (slang) $100; a c-note.
2. (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
3. An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
4. (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
5. (slang) Cocaine.
   • 1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945:

     Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.

6. Abbreviation of consonant.
7. (Britain, politics, in election results) Conservative

• (music): high C, middle C

• (in Unicode): D, KC, KD, NF

• NFC

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

C

1. (programming) A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.

2. (Britain) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service.
3. (stock ticker symbol) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE

(programming language): Objective-C

• C++, C plus plus
• C--, C minus minus

• C major, C minor
• C sharp, C#, C♯
• BCPL

• Unicode Consortium, Unicode Standard Annex #15, revision 41 (2014-06-05), § 1.2, table 1: “Normalization Forms”

French Sign Language letter C

From the French Sign Language sign for the letter C.

This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “C” shape .

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe C)

1. The letter C

• Index:American Sign Language/C

C upper case (lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) hərf; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, Ə ə, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, X x, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, Q q, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

• IPA^(key): /se/

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Catalan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) lletra; A a, À à, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, É é, È è, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, Ï ï, J j, K k, L l (L·L l·l), M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, Ò ò, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /s/, /k/, /x/, /ks/, /ʃ/, ...
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /seː/

• Audio

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C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Dutch alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a (Á á, Ä ä), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, Ë ë), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ï ï, IJ ij), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ö ö), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /tso/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ts/

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called co and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Finnish alphabet, called see and written in the Latin script.

• Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with k or s.

• (Latin-script letters) kirjain; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s (Š š), T t, U u, V v (W w), X x, Y y, Z z (Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö

C

1. cum laude approbatur

• IPA^(key): /tseː/

• Audio

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C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the German alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

French Sign Language letter C

Compare the French and American Sign Language signs for the letter C, which are identical.

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “C” shape.

(transliteration needed)

1. the letter C

• IPA^(key): /ts/

C (lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

• (name of letter) IPA^(key): /tʃi/
• Homophone: ci
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /k/
• (phoneme, before "e" or "i") IPA^(key): /tʃ/

C m or f (invariable, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Italian alphabet, called ci and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) lettera; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• (phoneme): (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /k/
• IPA^(key): /ɡ/

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• C in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• C in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• C in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

• IPA^(key): [ts]

• Audio

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C

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called cē and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) burts; A a, Ā ā, B b, C c, Č č, D d, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, Ģ ģ, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, Ķ ķ, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [si]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃ]

C

1. The third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á, À à,  â, àã), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, Ê ê), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ô ô, Õ õ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

• IPA^(key): /tʃe/

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /tʃ/, as in cel /tʃel/ (the) and citesc /tʃi'tesk/ (I read). When followed by "hi" or "he" (chi & che) and in all other cases, it represents /k/.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ă ă,  â, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Πî, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Ș ș, T t, Ț ț, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

• IPA^(key): /k̟/

C

1. The fifth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A, Á, Ⱥ, B, C, Ć, Ȼ, D, E, H, I, Í, J, K, Ꝁ, Ꝃ, ₭, Ḵ, Ḱ, L, Ƚ, M, N, Ṉ, O, P, Q, S, Ś, T, Ⱦ, Ṯ, Ŧ, U, W, W̲, X, X̲, Y, Z, s, ,

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /t͡s/

C (lower case c)

1. The fourth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) čŕka; A a, B b, C c, Č č, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ʕ/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ʕæɪ̯n/

C upper case (lower case c)

1. The twelfth letter of the Somali alphabet, called cayn and written in the Latin script.

1. The twelfth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by DH and followed by G.

• (Latin-script letters) ', B b, T t, J j, X x, Kh kh, D d, R r, S s, Sh sh, Dh dh, C c, G g, F f, Q q, K k, L l, M m, N n, W w, H h, Y y, A a, E e, I i, O o, U u

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

C m

1. (chess) Abbreviation of caballo.; K (knight)

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) harf; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ğ ğ, H h, I ı, İ i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ö ö, P p, R r, S s, Ş ş, T t, U u, Ü ü, V v, Y y, Z z

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [se˧˧], [kəː˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧], [kəː˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧], [kəː˨˩]
• Phonetic: xê, cờ

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The fifth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called xê and written in the Latin script.

• (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ; A a (À à, Ả ả, àã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ),  â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z