What Is the Cedilla? Meaning, Letters and How to Type It
A small hook under a letter. ç gives a soft s sound in French, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish and Albanian; Turkish also uses ş, and Latvian uses ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ.
Letters with the cedilla: ç ģ ķ ļ ņ ş ŗ ţ ȩ ḉ ḑ ḝ ḩ
Combining character: U+0327
What the cedilla does
A small hook under a letter. ç gives a soft s sound in French, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish and Albanian; Turkish also uses ş, and Latvian uses ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ. Unicode encodes 26 precomposed letters with this mark as their first diacritic, and the combining form U+0327 can add it to any other letter.
Languages that use it
Albanian, Catalan, French, Latvian, Portuguese, Turkish.
All lowercase letters with the cedilla
Codes and shortcuts
| Letter | Name | Unicode | Alt code | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ç | c with cedilla | U+00E7 | Alt+0231 | Option+C |
| ģ | g with cedilla | U+0123 | — | — |
| ķ | k with cedilla | U+0137 | — | — |
| ļ | l with cedilla | U+013C | — | — |
| ņ | n with cedilla | U+0146 | — | — |
| ş | s with cedilla | U+015F | — | — |
| ŗ | r with cedilla | U+0157 | — | — |
| ţ | t with cedilla | U+0163 | — | — |
| ȩ | e with cedilla | U+0229 | — | — |
| ḉ | c with cedilla and acute | U+1E09 | — | — |
| ḑ | d with cedilla | U+1E11 | — | — |
| ḝ | e with cedilla and breve | U+1E1D | — | — |
| ḩ | h with cedilla | U+1E29 | — | — |
How to type it on any letter
On Windows, hold Alt and type the code from the table, or type the letter followed by U+0327 in Word and press Alt+X. On a Mac, use Unicode Hex Input: type the letter, then hold Option and type 0327. On a Chromebook, type the letter, then Ctrl+Shift+U, 0327, Space.
Copy every letter with the cedilla
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