U0063

In Unicode, the code point U+0063 represents the Latin small letter c. It corresponds to the lowercase letter 'c' used in the Latin alphabet and resides in the Basic Latin block. Its decimal value is 99 and its hexadecimal value is 0x63.

The formal Unicode name is LATIN SMALL LETTER C. Its general category is Ll (letter, lowercase), script is Latin, and its bidirectional class is L (Left-to-Right). It has no combining marks and has no decomposition or numeric value, aside from its use as a basic Latin character in text.

Usage and pronunciation of this character vary by language. In many languages, the letter c denotes a /k/ sound before a, o, or u, and a /s/ sound before e or i (and before other vowels in some languages). In English, its pronunciation depends on context; it may represent /k/ or /s/ as appropriate. The character is widely used as part of the standard Latin alphabet across many writing systems.

Encoding and representations: In UTF-8, U+0063 is encoded as the single byte 0x63. In UTF-16, it is 0x0063, and in UTF-32, 0x00000063. HTML and XML numeric character references for this character are c or c.

Related characters include its uppercase counterpart LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) and letters with diacritics derived from c in various languages (such as ç U+00E7 or č U+010D). U+0063 is a fundamental component of the ASCII-compatible subset of Unicode and appears in most text-processing systems.