cedillamarked

Cedillamarked is an adjective used in typography and linguistics to describe a letter or glyph that bears a cedilla diacritic—a small hook beneath the character. The cedilla is used in several Latin-script languages to modify the sound of a base letter. Common cedillamarked letters include ç (c with cedilla) and Ç (uppercase), which have the precomposed code points U+00E7 and U+00C7, respectively. In Turkish and related orthographies, ş (U+015F) and Ş (U+015E) are also cedillamarked forms.

In typography and computing, cedillamarked is a descriptive label rather than a separate character class. It helps font designers, typesetters, and software to recognize and handle glyphs that carry the cedilla, including decisions about spacing, kerning, and text shaping. Some systems support the cedilla as a combining diacritic U+0327 that can be applied to base letters when precomposed forms are unavailable.

Unicode and sorting: Precomposed cedillamarked letters have individual code points; combining cedilla can be used to construct other cedillamarked forms, but this can affect normalization, case mapping, and collation. In typography, cedillamarked glyphs are produced by fonts or by combining marks, and rendering depends on font support and text engine.

Cedillamarked usage spans French, Portuguese, Turkish, and several other orthographies that employ the cedilla to signal a modified consonant.