Latin Small Letter C
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 99 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter c.
- Alt code
- Alt+99
- HTML entity
- c
- Unicode
- U+0063
About this symbol
In physics a small c stands for the speed of light, 299,792,458 metres a second, and Einstein’s E = mc² made it famous. The letter is usually traced to celeritas, the Latin word for swiftness.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER C
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase 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.