Č


The grapheme Čč is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant like the English ch in the word chocolate. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C and U+010D.

Origin

The symbol originates with the 15th century Czech alphabet as introduced by the reforms of Jan Hus. In 1830, it was adopted into Gaj's Latin alphabet, which is used in Serbo-Croatian. It is also used in Macedonian, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pomak, and Berber alphabets.

Uses

In Berber, Slovenian,
Serbo-Croatian,
Sorbian, Skolt Sami, and Lakota alphabets, it is the fourth letter of the alphabet. In Czech, Northern Sami alphabet, Belarusian, and the Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian, the letter is in fifth place. In Slovak it is sixth letter of the alphabet. It is also used in Pashto, romanization of Syriac and Saanich.
It is equivalent to Ч in Cyrillic and can be used in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, and Bulgarian romanisations. It features more permanently in the Latin alphabets or transliterations of Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
/Č/ is also used in Americanist phonetic notation.

Software

Representation in software follows the same rules as the háček.

Unicode

U+010C and U+010D create this character. The combining character U+030C can be placed together with either c or C to generally achieve the same visual result.

TeX/LaTeX

In text the control sequence \v will work. In math mode, $\check$ also works.