Ccedil

Ccedil refers to the Latin capital letter C with a cedilla, a glyph encoded in Unicode as the character Ç (U+00C7). In HTML and other SGML-derived formats, the uppercase C with cedilla is represented by the named character reference Ç, while the lowercase equivalent is ç (for ç, U+00E7). The numeric character references are Ç for Ç and ç for ç.

The cedilla is a diacritic placed beneath certain letters to modify their pronunciation in various languages. The most common form using this diacritic is the letter ç, found in languages such as French, Portuguese, and Catalan, where it often yields a soft /s/ sound. The uppercase Ç appears in several languages, notably Turkish and Azerbaijani, among others, and is used at the beginning of words just like other capital letters.

In digital text, Ccedil and its variants are part of the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) and Unicode character sets. Web pages that use UTF-8 can render Ç reliably, provided the document's encoding is declared correctly. Misrendering can occur if a page is served with an incompatible or incorrect encoding.

Ccedil is not a separate letter in the modern English alphabet; rather, it is the canonical name for the capital C with cedilla in computing contexts. The related lowercase form is ç, and both appear across multiple languages that use the cedilla as a diacritic to indicate distinct sounds or orthographic conventions.