| C with bar | |
| Letter: | Ꞓ ꞓ |
| Imagealt: | Capital and lowercase barred C |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Type: | Alphabet |
| Typedesc: | ic |
| Language: | Unified Northern Alphabet |
| Phonemes: | [{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}] [{{IPA link|t͡s}}] |
| Unicode: | U+A792, U+A793 |
The C with bar (majuscule: Ꞓ, minuscule: ꞓ), also known as barred C, is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from C with the addition of a bar. It was used in the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, approved in 1932, for Saami, Selkup, Khanty, Evenki, Even, Nanai, Udege, Chukchi, Koryak and Nivkh languages [1] to denote the sound pronounced as /t͡ʃ/, although in some of these languages in practice, several other alphabets were used. Also, this letter was used in the Latinized Shugnan alphabet (1931-1939) to denote the sound pronounced as /t͡s/.[2] [3] [4]
The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses the capital barred C to represent the Cambrian Period in geologic history.[5] In phonetic transcription, the lowercase barred C may denote a voiceless palatal fricative (IPA: pronounced as /link/), and in 1963, it was proposed as a symbol for a voiceless flat postalveolar fricative pronounced as /[ɻ̊˔]/ by William A. Smalley.[6]
In 19th-century American English dictionaries such as those by Noah Webster and William Holmes McGuffey, the letter was used to denote pronounced as pronounced as //k//.[7]
Its Unicode codepoints are and .