C with stroke

Ȼ (minuscule: 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 (ts as in cats) in certain phonetic transcription systems for the indigenous languages of Mexico. The Saanich alphabet uses its majuscule form (the alphabet is caseless) for (qu as in quilt). In Unifon, a phonemic transcription for American English, it represents .

Biology In French-speaking countries, ȼ (lowercase barred c) is a note-taking abbreviation for cellule (cell).

Use on computers Ȼ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, in the Latin Extended-B block. It did not previously exist in character sets, and consequently some fonts may not display it; it is often substituted by the cent sign .

See also ¢ the symbol for cent ₵, the symbol for the Ghanaian cedi ₡, the symbol for the Salvadoran and Costa Rican colón

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