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C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet.
In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no distinctive voicing, so they took over Greek Γ (Gamma) to write their /k/.
In the beginning, the Romans used C for both /k/ and /g/, only later adding a horizontal bar at right-center to produce G.
It is possible but uncertain that C represented only /g/ at an even earlier time, while K might have been used for /k/.
Some scholars claim that the Semitic ג (gîmel) pictured a camel.
/k/ developed palatal and velar allophones in Latin, probably due to Etruscan influence.
Therefore, C has many different sound values today, among them /k/ and /s/ in French, /k/ and /θ/ (like English TH in THIN) in European Castilian, /θ/ in Fijian, /k/ and /ʧ/ (like English CH) in Italian, /ʤ/ in Turkish, Tatar, Azeri; /ʦ/ in Czech, Esperanto and so on.
As a phonetic symbol, lowercase [c] is the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal plosive, and capital [C] is the X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal fricative.
Alternate representations
Charlie represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
In international Morse code the letter C is DahDitDahDit: - · - ·
In Braille the letter C is represented as ⠉ (in Unicode), the dot pattern,
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Computing
In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the
lowercase c is U+0063.
The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or
in binary 01000011 and 01100011,
respectively.
The EBCDIC code for capital C is 195 and for lowercase c is 131.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are
"C" and "c" for upper and lower case
respectively.
Meanings for C
- In baseball, C is the abbreviation for the position of catcher.
- In biochemistry, C is the symbol for cysteine and cytosine.
- In business, C is a "creation" initial. It is used for the company name etc. in many Japanese companies.
- In chemistry, C is the symbol for carbon.
- In communication, c is an abbreviation for the word "see" in SMS or instant message.
- In computing, C denotes the C programming language. Several of its derivatives have names including the letter C, for example C++, Objective-C, and C#.
- In currency, c with a vertical bar through it (¢), is the symbol for cent.
- In education, C is an average grade.
- In electrical engineering,
- In espionage, C is the head of MI6.
- In financial securities, C is the stock symbol for Citigroup.
- In geometry, c is the length of a hypotenuse on a right-angled triangle when using the formula a² + b² = c².
- In hardware, a C-clamp is a type of fastener, so called because it's shape resembles the capital C.
- In history, c is an abbreviation for circa. When used with years, it means about (e.g., "c. 1500" means around the year 1500).
- In international licence plate codes, C stands for Cuba.
- In international paper sizes, C is a series of sizes with an aspect ratio of roughly 70% width to height. This series is primarily used for envelopes.
- In mathematics,
- In the Metric system,
- In music, C is a note; see also Middle C
- In nutrition, C is a vitamin; see Vitamin C
- In physics, c is the speed of light in vacuum.
- In publishing, c with an enclosing circle, ©, denotes copyright
- In rail transport, C is the UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement known as 0-6-0 in the Whyte notation; a locomotive with three powered axles (and thus six wheels) in which the axles are linked by gearing or side rods.
- In Roman numerals, C denotes one hundred (centum in Latin).
- In temperature, °C is the symbol for degrees Celsius.
- As a timezone, C is the military designation for UTC+3, also known as MSK or Moscow Time.
See also
Ç, Ĉ, ¢
Two-letter combinations starting with C:
af:C
bs:C
ca:C
cs:C
da:C
de:C
el:C
es:C
eo:C
fr:C
gl:C
it:C
he:C
la:C
hu:C
nl:C
ja:C
no:C
pl:C
pt:C
ro:C
simple:C
fi:C
sl:C
sv:C
vi:C
yo:C
zh:C
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