ç

Etymology
From ⟨ꝣ⟩, the Visigothic form of the letter z, which resembled a C with a subscript z.

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiceless palatal fricative.
 * 2)  -fricated release of a plosive (e.g.  or ), sometimes implying an affricate (e.g. ⟨cᶜ̧⟩ for ); -coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.

Usage notes
A superscript ⟨ᶜ̧⟩ needs to be composed with a cedilla diacritic: U+1D9C ᶜ|⟨ᶜ⟩ + U+0327 ⟨◌̧⟩.

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.
 * It is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of.

Letter

 * 1) c cedilla

Letter

 * 1) "c ", the letter c with a cedilla

Usage notes

 * ⟨ç⟩ is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of ⟨c⟩. Accordingly it has the same value in alphabetical orders.
 * It is used when a ⟨c⟩ is pronounced before ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ or ⟨u⟩. This happens mostly in derivatives and inflections. For example,  derived from, or , inflected form of . One of the fairly rare counterexamples would be.

Letter

 * 1)  the voiceless palatal click consonant, and the base of multigraphs for the other palatal clicks; now replaced with $⟨ꝣ⟩$.

Alternative forms

 * tc

Etymology
+.

Letter

 * 1) "c cedilha" (the letter c with a cedilla)

Usage notes
Ç is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of C. It is used where a  pronounced /s/ occurs before ,  or  (due to etymology or inflection). Examples: (Inflection) merecer ("to deserve", infinitive), mereça (imperative). (Etymology) maça from Latin mattia, massa from Latin massa (both /ˈmasa/). Never occurs word-initially.

Letter

 * 1)  c with cedilla

Usage notes

 * Now replaced by the letter.