What ̧ means
Use character or code input to insert it alone.
To modify a letter, enter the base first and this mark immediately after it. The mark attaches to the preceding character; entered alone, it may look detached.
In Windows Word, enter 0327 and press Alt+X; GNOME uses Ctrl+Shift+U, then 0327, then Space or Enter. On macOS, search by name or code in Character Viewer.
What does the cedilla mark do?
It places a cedilla-like mark under the preceding letter.
A c followed by this mark can render as ç. Unicode normalization can combine that sequence into the precomposed letter, so identical-looking text may contain different character sequences.
In medieval handwriting, a small z written beneath c came to mark a changed consonant while keeping the inherited c. A study of Provençal charters describes this development; Provençal is a Romance language of southern France. Another account places established use in the 13th century but leaves its Iberian, French, or Provençal route unsettled. Castilian Spanish later dropped ç as its sibilant sounds changed; Portuguese and Catalan kept it. French printer Geoffroy Tory adopted the sign from Spanish in 1529.
Technical and orthographic: this mark belongs inside multilingual text, not as decoration.
If it appears under the wrong character, reinsert it after the intended base.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does the cedilla sometimes look like a comma?
Some fonts do: they draw the mark with a comma-like tail. Romanian comma-below is a separate mark, so shape alone cannot tell you which character the text uses.
How to type ̧
̧\0327Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.