C with stroke


Ȼ is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a stroke through the letter. Its minuscule form represents the sound in certain phonetic transcription systems for the indigenous languages of Mexico, and the Saanich alphabet uses its majuscule form for, and in Unifon, a phonemic transcription for American English; where it represents.

Biology

In French-speaking countries, ȼ is the symbol used for a "cell".

Use on computers

Ȼ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, in the Latin Extended-B block. It did previously not exist in character sets, and consequently, few fonts can display it. The cent sign is often substituted for it instead.