Latin Capital Letter C
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 67 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter c.
- Alt code
- Alt+67
- HTML entity
- C
- Unicode
- U+0043
About this symbol
C comes from the Greek gamma, by way of the Etruscans, whose language had no separate g sound, so the Romans at first used C for both k and g. That is why the Roman name Gaius was abbreviated C.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.