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c Appendix:Variations of "c" Ⅽ Ｃ 𜳘 Translingual Etymology 1 class=skin-invert-image|50px|thumb|right|Etruscan 𐌂 (C), the source for Latin C From the mul ett - letter ett 𐌂 ce, from the mul grc - letter grc Γ gamma, derived from the mul phn - letter phn 𐤂 giml, from the mul egy - hieroglyph egy 𓌙. Letter mul mul letter 3 See also select other variations Ƈ ₡ ₵ ₢ Other scripts: mul Г ge, mul ג gimel For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "c". Etymology 2 A standardization of mul Ɔ and mul C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of mul la centum hundred, from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternative form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling mul Ж (a superimposed mul X and mul I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut. Alternative forms mul c, mul LL, mul ll Numeral mul numerals upper case Roman numeral lower case c mul Q37413 Roman numeral hundred (100). mul Q28469810 The hundredth (100th). Usage notes With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as C̄, it represents one hundred thousand. Coordinate terms Previous: XCIX (99) Next: CI (101) Derived terms English: c-note See also Lesser Roman numeral symbol: mul L 50 Greater Roman numeral symbol: mul D 500 Roman numerals Etymology 3 element symbol carbon mul en:carbon. metrology coulomb mul en:coulomb, from mul fr coulomb. computing hexadecimal 12 From its position as the twelfth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F} physics capacitance mul en:capacitance. Symbol mul amino acid IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine. mul clothing Bra cup size. mul computing hexadecimal The digit for 12. 0x0000000C mul Q623 carbon 1 1 a bond is in default, with little prospect of debt recovery 1 1 a bond is low grade and on the verge of default mul genetics IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine. mul linguistics A wildcard for a consonant. mul mathematics differentiable class. C1 functions are differentiable once, and C2 functions are twice differentiable mul mathematics The constant of integration. mul metrology Symbol for en coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge. mul metrology Symbol for en degree Celsius degrees Celsius. en °C mul 2019-12-02 w:Fiona Harvey Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world? https://web.archive.org/web/20191202083602/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/dec/02/climate-crisis-what-is-cop-and-can-it-save-the-world Current commitments made by national governments under the Paris agreement fall far short of what is required – taken together, they would still condemn the world to an estimated temperature rise of more than 3C by the end of the century. en mul 2022-10-27 Paloma Torres Potentially Petty/Hot Person Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds w:The Eyeopener 56 7 3 https://issuu.com/editor-theeyeopener/docs/vol56issue7 I’ve noticed my attitude just hasn’t been the vibe lately. Yesterday I totally lost it at a restaurant because my pasta was only 18 C, which is two degrees below normal room temperature—like two degrees! How could they? mul physics capacitance. mul voice quality symbols creak (vocal fry). Gallery See also C Charlie –·–· ⠉ Category:Roman numerals Category:Symbols for SI units mul ordinal numbers mul Hundred English Etymology 1 Pronunciation letter name en /siː/ en en-uk-c.ogg UK phoneme en /s/ /k/ /tʃ/ /ks/ /ʃ/, ... en si cee sea see en iː 1 Letter en en letter 3 cee 3 Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof See also Number en en ordinal 3 cee Symbol sym A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D. Noun en 100$ en US slang One hundred dollars; a c-note.fpyigci C n 2 en 1935 Henry Louis Mencken; George Jean Nathan The American Mercury 35 227 I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke. en w:American Gigolo w:Paul Schrader 1980 Leon Bill Duke Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy. en music The first note in the C chromatic and major scales. en high C middle C en grade en education An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B. en June 18, 2021 Sam Roberts Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95 https://web.archive.org/web/20210618183006/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/nyregion/saul-b-cohen-dead.html 18 June 2021 w:The New York Times Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries. en Unicode en canonical Canonical en decomposition Decomposition, followed by Canonical en composition Composition en en slang Cocaine.jrlz63y C n 3 1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945: Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted. en slang vulgar Cunt.x6ti6ui C n 1 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C. en consonant. en Gessica Puccini Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse Lingoblog https://www.lingoblog.dk/en/lang-belta-the-belter-language-from-syfy-amazons-the-expanse/ 2021-10-05 The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’. https://web.archive.org/web/20260520041529/https://www.lingoblog.dk/en/lang-belta-the-belter-language-from-syfy-amazons-the-expanse/ 20 May 2026 en UK politics in election results en Conservative. en century. en C. c. en Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement. en w:The Automobile Association AA Town Plans London w:Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd. 1979 222 https://archive.org/details/aatownplans0000auto/page/222/mode/1up 1 0-861-45003-5 Contains an interesting collection of English and European paintings from the 14th to 20th-Cs, in particular the Lycett Green collection of old masters. en Yvette Vignando Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World w:Jane Caro St Lucia, Qld. w:University of Queensland Press 2013 127 https://archive.org/details/destroyingjoint0000unse/page/127/mode/1up 978-0-702-24990-7 Thanks, @janecaro, for showing that public profiles can be used for good & that social media belongs in a 21stC democracy. en basketball netball en center. en PG SG SF PF GK GD WA WD GS GA Derived terms en C-19 Mode C C-grade C-level C-low C major C melody C minor C of W C-suiter K of C NFC C-drama C-list C-DNA C wire C-man C-type conflict cluster C personality disorder type C Part C state absey C-string cactinomycin CHNOPS CHON Cnile CPython Cython Area C C-walk protein C Cs get degrees Related terms in Unicode en D, en KC, en KD, en NF Translations musical note Finnish: fi c French: fr do m, fr ut m Italian: it do Japanese: ja ハ ha Korean: ko 다 Macedonian: mk до Norwegian: Bokmål: nb C m, nb c m Russian: ru до Etymology 2 C (programming language) The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called en B Q797302. Proper noun en programming language en programming A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived. 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business. en British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). en stock symbol Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE. en Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/news/russia-forum-ceos 2014-05-02 Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn. https://web.archive.org/web/20260217094602/https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/news/russia-forum-ceos 17 February 2026 Hyponyms programming language en Objective-C Derived terms en C family C++ C plus plus C-- C minus minus Unsupported titles/C sharp C# C sharp C-style comment Related terms en BCPL Translations programming language Arabic: ar سي m sī Aragonese: an C, an luengache de programación C Armenian: hy Սի, hy C Asturian: ast C, ast llinguaxe de programación C Azerbaijani: az C Belarusian: be C Buginese: bug C Bulgarian: bg C Chinese: Cantonese: yue C語言 si1 jyu5 jin4 Eastern Min: cdo C, cdo C ngṳ̄-ngiòng Mandarin: cmn C語言 sèi-yǔyán Chuvash: cv Си Danish: da C Dutch: nl C Esperanto: eo C Finnish: fi C French: fr C m, fr langage C m Georgian: ka C German: de C Greek: el C Hindi: hi सी Interlingua: ia C Japanese: ja C, ja C言語 Shī-gengo Latin: la C m Macedonian: mk C Malayalam: ml സി Norwegian: Bokmål: nb C Nynorsk: nn C Portuguese: pt C Russian: ru Си Samogitian: sgs C Santali: sat ᱥᱤ Serbo-Croatian: sh C Spanish: es C Swedish: sv C Tatar: tt Си Ukrainian: uk Сі, uk C Urdu: ur سی si Venetan: vec C, vec Lenguajo C Yakut: sah C Yiddish: yi C Etymology 3 Abbreviations. Noun ? en entomology en costa. Verb en verbs en gramogramsen Internet slang text messaging en see. en c en 2008 January–February Chris Rodell Small talk, big results w:Men's Health 23 1 1054-4836 6ccDAAAAMBAJ 80 U C wt I mn Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. U C wt I mn? Etymology 4 Kopi (drink) en. Either from en hnm 鮮 fresh si²³, short for 鮮奶 fresh milk, en ms cair melted referring to evaporated milk, or an abbreviation of Carnation (brand) Carnation, a canned milk brand, and historically, one of the most widespread forms of evaporated milk in Singapore.20 April 2011 Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context Jock Onn Wong Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore Goddard, C. 9783110911114 w:De Gruyter 109 Pronunciation en /siː(˦)/ SG Adjective - en Singapore Malaysia colloquial used as a modifier after ms kopi coffee or ms teh tea With sugar and evaporated milk added. Derived terms en kopi c teh c Related terms en O di lo gah dai gau kosong peng po siew dai References Unicode Consortium, Unicode Standard Annex #15, revision 41 (2014-06-05), § 1.2, table 1: “Normalization Forms” en Academic grades Computer languages C programming language Beverages Malaysia Singapore Afrikaans Pronunciation letter name af /sɪə/ Letter af af letter 3 See also Noun C's C'tjie C Albanian Pronunciation sq /t͡s/ Letter sq sq letter 3 See also Arvanitic Angami Letter njm njm letter 17 See also Azerbaijani Pronunciation phoneme az [dʒ] [dz] letter name az [dʒe] [dʒɯ] [dze] [dzɯ] Letter az az letter 3 See also Basque Pronunciation raw:/k/<q:phoneme>,raw:/s̻/ Letter eu eu letter 3 ze Usage notes Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns. See also Further reading Catalan Pronunciation cé Letter ca ca letter 3 ce See also Central Franconian Letter gmw-cfr gmw-cfr letter German-based gmw-cfr letter Dutch-based Usage notes In the German-based spelling, c is generally used only in ck (doubled gmw-cfr K k), ch for /ɕ/ /x/ (rarely /k/), and sch for /ʃ/. In the Dutch-based spelling, c is used in ch and sometimes after the Dutch cognate for /k/ or /s/. The digraph sj is used for /ʃ/. Central Mazahua Pronunciation maz /k/ Letter maz maz letter Chinese Etymology 1 Pronunciation xī,sēi si1 n Noun zh nouns zh electronics USB-C C{sēi}口 USB-C port sēikǒu Etymology 2 Pronunciation 1 xī,sēi si1 xm:si si5 sh:1shi letters Letter zh zh letter 3 the Latin alphabet as used in Chinese Pronunciation 2 cī,cê̄,1nb=common,2nb=official letters Letter zh zh letter 3 Pinyin Usage notes Czech Letter cs cs letter 4 See also Dutch Pronunciation phoneme nl /s/ /k/ /x/ /ks/ /ʃ/, ... letter name nl /seː/ nl Nl-C.ogg nl eː Letter nl nl letter 3 cee See also Elfdalian Alternative forms ovd ᛋ C Dalecarlian runes Letter ovd ovd obsolete non-native words ovd letter Esperanto Pronunciation See eo c. Letter eo eo letter 3 co See also Further reading c co Estonian Pronunciation letter name tsee tsee phoneme ts k s depending on the source language Letter et et letter 3 tsee Usage notes Used only in foreign words. See also Finnish Etymology Letter fi fi letter 3 see Usage notes Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with k or s. Derived terms fi compounds C-oikeudet C-pilari See also Noun fi cum laude approbatur fi c C (musical note) note French Pronunciation cé fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-C.wav <<France>> (<<Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-C.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-C.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>) Letter fr fr letter 3 Noun fr noun fr chess fr cavalier knight: N fr Les règles du jeu d’échecs 2023 https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Reglesdujeu2023.pdf 2023-04 17 w:FIDE 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cf6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Ce4 5.Dxd4 d5 6.exd6e.p. Cxd6 7.Fg5 Cc6 8.De3+ Fe7 9.Cbd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Te8 11.Rb1 (=) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Ne4 5.Qxd4 d5 6.exd6e.p. Nxd6 7.Bg5 Nc6 8.Qe3+ Be7 9.Nbd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Re8 11.Kb1 (=) https://web.archive.org/web/20260303190352/https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Reglesdujeu2023.pdf 3 March 2026 14 June 2025 See also German Pronunciation de /tseː/ de De-C.OGG de De-C4.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-C3.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-C2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-C1.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-C0.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Letter de de letter 3 ce See also Noun n,-,-:s en C Declension n,-,-:s Further reading Heiltsuk Pronunciation hei /t͜sʰ/ Letter hei hei letter 8 See also Hungarian Pronunciation phoneme letter name cé hu Hu-cé.ogg Letter hu hu letter 4 cé Declension C- eC- Derived terms hu C-dúr hu C-vitamin See also Ido Pronunciation io /ts/ Letter io io letter 3 See also Indonesian Pronunciation letter name id /t͡ʃe/ standard letter name id /se/ variant Dutch-influenced phoneme id /tʃ/ Etymology 1 From the id la - letter la C, from the id ett - letter ett 𐌂 ce, from the id grc - letter grc Γ gamma, derived from the id phn - letter phn 𐤂 giml, from the id egy - hieroglyph egy 𓌙. Letter id id letter 3 See also Noun en C: id music the first note in the C chromatic and major scales id gradeid education An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B Etymology 2 Numeral id numerals upper case Roman numeral lower case c id C (Indonesian) Roman numeral hundred (mul 100) id C (Indonesian) the hundredth (100th) Etymology 3 Symbol id symbol id C (Indonesian) id chemical symbol mul C: id karbon Further reading Irish Letter ga ga letter 3 See also Italian it: Pronunciation **cì*<pre:letter name><hmp:ci> c<pre:phonemic realization> [tʃ]<pre:phonemic realization before e or i> Letter it it letter 3 ci Noun it noun it chess it cavallo knight See also Italian alphabet References FIDE Laws of Chess 2023 - German translation Kankanaey Etymology kne tl C. Letter pronunciation is influenced by kne en C. Pronunciation si<a:letter> k<a:phoneme> Letter letter kne letter 3 si See also Kashubian Etymology Letter csb csb letter 5 See also Kwak'wala Alternative forms kwk Ts in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwak'wala) Pronunciation kwk /t͜s/ Letter kwk kwk Liqʼwala dialect kwk letter See also Latin Pronunciation phoneme K G Letter la la letter 3 Symbol la numeral symbol A digit mul 100 (la centum) in the decimal Roman numeral system. It is iterated for multiples. Derived terms la 0 XC CC CCC CCCC CD DC DCC DCCC DCCCC CM References C in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short A Latin Dictionary Clarendon Press Oxford 1879 C in Harry Thurston Peck Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities Harper & Brothers New York 1898 Latvian lv: Etymology Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic. Pronunciation ts lv lv-riga-c.ogg Letter class=skin-invert-image|thumb|200px|C lv lv letter 4 cē See also Lower Sorbian Pronunciation dsb /t͡s/ Letter dsb dsb letter 3 cej See also Luxembourgish Letter lb lb letter 3 See also Noun m C-en C the letter en C Further reading Malay ms: Pronunciation ms [si] Name of letter ms [t͡ʃ] Phoneme Etymology 1 Letter ms ms letter 3 Etymology 2 Either from ms hnm 鮮 fresh si²³, short for 鮮奶 fresh milk, shortened form of cair (melted) referring to evaporated milk, or an abbreviation of Carnation (brand) Carnation, a canned milk brand, and historically, one of the most widespread forms of evaporated milk in Singapore.20 April 2011 Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context Jock Onn Wong Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore Goddard, C. 9783110911114 w:De Gruyter 109 Pronunciation ms [si] Adjective c ms colloquial used as a modifier after ms kopi coffee or ms teh tea with sugar and no milk added. Derived terms ms kopi c teh c See also References ms Beverages Norwegian Bokmål nb: class=skin-invert-image|250px|thumb|The letter C, c from the Norwegian alphabet, in two different fonts. Alternative forms nb c Etymology 1 From nb la C, from Etruscan nb ett 𐌂, from nb grc Γ gamma, from nb phn 𐤂 giml. Pronunciation nb /seː/ letter name nb /s/ /k/ /tʃ/ /ʃ/ phoneme nb Nb-se.ogg nb eː nb C nb c se Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello"). Letter nb nb letter 3 See also Noun C- the letter c, the third letter of the Norwegian alphabet indicates the third entry in a list, order or rank nb øl i klasse C beer with 2.75–3.75 volume percent alcohol 1 nb førerkort klasse C driver's license for a truck 1 nb førerkort klasse C1 driver's license for a light truck 1 nb hepatitt C hepatitis C 1 nb 1857 w:Henrik Wergeland Samlede Skrifter VIII 515 [jeg har] allerede sagt A. Traditionen vil nok lægge B. og C. til [I have] already said A. Tradition will probably add B. and C. to nb 1939 w:Knut Hamsun Artikler 100 historie er, hvad A mener til forskel fra B, og hvad C igen mener til forskel fra A og B history is what A means as a difference from B, and what C in turn means as a difference from A and B nb education the third highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale nb å få C til eksamen to get a C on your exam nb music en C, c-note the first note in the C chromatic and major scales; the lowest note of an instrument, written below the staff and the D note nb den høye C high C 1 nb 1997 w:Tove Nilsen G for Georg 42 så gal at man virkelig tror at svaler er g-nøkler og bass-nøkler og a’er og c’er som svever rundt hverandre og lager konsert i himmelen so crazy that you really think swallows are g-keys and bass-keys and a's and c's floating around each other and making a concert in the sky nb 1939 w:Knut Hamsun Artikler 100 [de] larmet ikke og gik ikke og tok det høie C [they] did not make noise and did not go and did the high C nb 1999 Børre Qvamme Opera, operette og ballett gjennom tidene 70 Duprez vakte sensasjon ved sine ut de poitrine, høy c tatt som brysttone Duprez aroused sensation by his out de poitrine, high c taken as chest tone nb 2000 w:Pål Gerhard Olsen Fredstid han gjør stolen hennes tobent så hun når den høye c av forskrekkelse he makes her chair two-legged so she reaches the high c out of fright nb C (Norwegian Bokmål) C Roman numeral hundred; 100 Usage notes Only used in words of foreign origin, usually English. Even rare in loanwords, as this letter does not represent a sound of its own. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s or k. Still kept in many Christian names, therefore Caroline and Karoline are both acceptable spellings. In most of the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19th centuries is spelled as ᛎ. Etymology 2 Abbreviation of nb celsius, named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744). Pronunciation nb /seː/ /ˈsɛlsɪʉs/ nb Nb-se.ogg nb Nb-celsius.ogg nb eː ʉs nb C nb c se celsius Symbol nb symbols nb C (Norwegian Bokmål) nb metrology symbol for degrees Celsius Etymology 3 Abbreviation of nb coulomb, named after French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. Pronunciation nb /seː/ /kʊˈlɔmb/ nb Nb-se.ogg nb Nb-coulomb.ogg nb eː ɔmb nb C nb c se coulomb Symbol nb symbols nb C (Norwegian Bokmål) nb metrology Symbol for en coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge. Etymology 4 From nb en C<id:programming language>, named C because it followed on from an earlier programming language called en B Q797302. Pronunciation nb /seː/ /siː/ nb Nb-se.ogg nb Nb-si.ogg nb eː iː nb C nb c si Symbol nb symbols nb programming en C a particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived Etymology 5 Abbreviation of nb karbon, from nb fr carbone carbon, from nb la carbo carbō, carbōnem charcoal, coal, from nb ine-pro *kerh₃- to burn. Pronunciation nb /seː/ /karˈbuːn/ nb Nb-se.ogg nb Nb-karbon.ogg nb eː uːn nb C nb c karbon Symbol nb symbols nb C (Norwegian Bokmål) nb chemistry carbon the chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6 nb 1943 (Carl Fred. Holmboe Michael Faraday 165–166 kullstoffet C (carbo) er tetravalent og danner metan CH4 med fire vannstoffatomer carbon C (carbo) is tetravalent and forms methane CH4 with four hydrogen atoms References “C (Programmeringsspråk)” in Store norske leksikon “C (Atomsymbol)” in Store norske leksikon “C (Tone)” in Store norske leksikon “C (Romertall)” in Store norske leksikon Anagrams nb c nb eponyms nb Numbers Schools Norwegian Nynorsk Letter nn nn letter 3 Usage notes Only used in words of foreign origin, usually English. Even rare in loanwords, as this letter does not represent a sound of its own. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s or k. Still kept in many Christian names, therefore Caroline and Karoline are both acceptable spellings. In most of the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19th centuries is spelled as ᛎ. 2001 K. Jonas Nordby Etterreformatoriske runeinnskrifter i Norge: Opphav og tradisjon 85 https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/22979 1997 James E. Knirk Nyare tids runeinnskrifter frå Vindal Negard See also Noun C- the letter en C References Nupe Pronunciation phoneme nup /t͡ʃ/ Letter nup nup letter 3 See also Nuxalk Pronunciation phoneme blc /ç/ Letter blc blc letter 3 See also Old English Pronunciation phoneme ang /k/ /tʃ/ Letter ang ang letter representing the phonemes /k/ and /tʃ/ Numeral ang numeral ang C (Old English) the numeral 100 (ang hundred) late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans ang ⁊ R̄omana wæs ān C ⁊ ān M ofslaġen, ⁊ heora sċipa IX ādruncen. And 1,100 of the Romans were slain, and nine of their ships were sunk. Oromo Pronunciation ca ca om Om-c.ogg Letter om om letter 3 Polish Etymology pl letter Pronunciation ce - - LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-C.wav Letter pl pl letter 4 ce See also Portuguese Letter pt pt letter 3 See also Romani Pronunciation rom /t͡s/ Letter rom rom letter 3 See also References C, c 13 Romanian Pronunciation ro /k/ /tʃ/ Letter ro ro letter 5 ce cî Usage notes When followed by an ro i or ro e, this letter represents the phoneme /tʃ/, as in ro cel (/tʃel/) and ro citesc (/tʃiˈtesk/). When followed by hi or he (chi and che) and in all other cases, it represents /k/. See also Saanich Pronunciation str /k̟/ Letter str nocase str letter 5 See also Sarikoli Pronunciation Letter srh srh letter 3 See also Scottish Gaelic Pronunciation gd /kʰ/ Letter gd gd letter 3 B D ; traditionally named gd coll hazel See also Silesian Etymology Letter szl szl letter 4 See also Skolt Sami Pronunciation phoneme sms /t͡s/ Letter sms sms letter 4 See also Slovene sl: Alternative forms sl ƞ (Metelko alphabet) sl Z (Bohorič alphabet) Etymology From Gaj's Latin alphabet sh C, from sl cs C, from sl la C, from sl ett 𐌂, from sl grc Γ Gamma, from sl phn 𐤂 giml. Pronunciation as sl /cə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from sl de C. Pronunciation phoneme: sl /t͡s/ [d͡z] letter name: cə̏ cẹ̄ sl Sl-nt-c.ogg letter name, non-tonal sl ə eː Letter sl sl letter 3 sl letter 4 Resian sl letter 3 Natisone Valley dialect Noun C m-in The name of the Latin script letter C / c. Declension Overall more common C C-j More common when with a definite adjective C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C Masculine inan., no endings See also sl C Ć Somali Pronunciation phoneme so /ʕ/ letter name so /ʕæɪ̯n/ Letter so so letter 12 cayn DH G Usage notes The Somali alphabet follows the Arabic abjad order. See also Spanish Letter es es letter 3 Noun es noun m es chess es caballo knight: K es Leyes Del Ajedrez 2023 https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Traduccion-Leyes-Version-Final.pdf 2023-04 27 w:FIDE 1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cf6 3.d4 exd4 4.e5 Ce4 5.Dxd4 d5 6.exd6 a.p. Cxd6; 7.Ag5 Cc68.De3+ Ae7 9.Cbd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Te8 11.Rb1(=). https://web.archive.org/web/20250814163116/https://rcc.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Traduccion-Leyes-Version-Final.pdf 14 August 2025 14 June 2025 Swedish Letter sv sv letter 3 Proper noun n C\:s sv politics sv Centerpartiet Centre Party sv Centern sv 6 September 2022 w:Dagens Nyheter Så förbereder S och C regeringssamarbete This is how S and C prepare government cooperation https://www.dn.se/sverige/sa-forbereder-s-och-c-regeringssamarbete/ Flera källor bekräftar att S nu ofta stämmer av politiska beslut med C:s partiledning. Several sources confirm that S now often reconciles political decisions with C's party leadership. https://web.archive.org/web/20260209172236/https://www.dn.se/sverige/sa-forbereder-s-och-c-regeringssamarbete/ 9 February 2026 Tagalog Etymology tl es C. Each pronunciation has a different source: Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by tl en C. Abecedario pronunciation is from tl es C. Pronunciation sí<qq:letter name, Filipino alphabet> sé<qq:letter name, Abecedario> k<qq:phoneme> s<qq:phoneme, before vowels e and i> Letter tl 3 si fil tl historical 3 ce abec Usage notes This letter is mostly used only in Spanish-based spellings, proper nouns, or unadapted loanwords. See also tl CH Further reading Turkish Pronunciation phoneme tr /d͡ʒ/ letter name tr /d͡ʒeː/ Letter tr tr letter 3 ce See also Vietnamese Pronunciation xê cờ Letter vi vi letter 5 xê cờ See also Welsh Pronunciation cy /ɛk/ standard cy /kə/ informal Letter cy cy letter 3 ec It is preceded by cy B and followed by cy Ch. See also Mutation C at the beginning of words mutates to cy G in a en soft mutation, to cy Ngcy h in a en nasal mutation and to cy Ch in an en aspirate mutation, for example with the word cy Cymru Wales: Cymru Further reading Zulu Letter zu zu letter 3 See also