EDIT Usage
In pinyin romanizations of Mandarin Chinese, the sound represented by this glyph is spelled with x (U+0078).
In Polish orthography this sound is spelled with ś (U+015B).

 
EDIT In the IPA this symbol represents a voiceless (laminal) alveolo-palatal fricative.
 
EDIT International Phonetic Alphabet

+ Consonant
+ Sound example

+ Alternatives // unknown
+ Former versions // unknown
+ Origin // Latin alphabet, small letter
+ Visual characterisation // small letter c with curl

+ In the IPA since 1932
+ IPA number 182

+ This sound can be found in Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Swedish.


Synonyms

English
+ Official name in the IPA // ›voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative‹
+ Nonstandard // between /ç/ and /s/
+ Curly-tail c
+ c with back-curl


+ Source //
Principles of the International Phonetic Association, London, 1949. /
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1989. /
Wikipedia. Die Liste der IPA-Zeichen & History of the International Phonetic Alphabet. /
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. /
Pullum, Geoffrey and William A. Ladusaw. Phonetic Symbol Guide. Second edition.

 
ADD NEWSIMILAR CHARACTERS
01 CODE POINT VALUE: : : : : 0255
02 NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : : LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL
03 GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : : Letter, Lowercase
04 COMBINING CLASS : : : : : Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05 BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: : Left-to-Right
06 DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : : -
07 DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : : -
08 DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : : -
09 NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : : -
10 MIRRORED: : : : : : : : : No
11 UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : : LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL
12 ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD : -
 
13  UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
14 LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
15 TITLECASE MAPPING : : : : -
16 DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : : 597
17 UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : : 0xC995
18 UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x0255
19 UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x00000255
20 XHTML : : : : : : : : : : &#597
21 BLOCK : : : : : : : : : : IPA Extensions
22 PLANE : : : : : : : : : : Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23 STROKE NUMBER : : : : : : -
24 RADICAL : : : : : : : : : -
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U+0255 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL
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