The small mark under the letter c in French words such as 'leçon' is called a cedilla.
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Cedilla
//səˈdɪlə//
Synonyms for "cedilla" (4 found)
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32 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سِدِيلَا noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Belarusian
1 entries- цэды́ллю noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Catalan
1 entries- trencat noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 軟音符 /软音符 noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Czech
1 entries- cedilla noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Dutch
1 entries- cedille noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Esperanto
3 entries- cedilo noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- subhoko noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- zoeto noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Finnish
1 entries- sedilji noun (mark placed under the letter c)
French
1 entries- cédille noun (mark placed under the letter c)
German
1 entries- Cedille noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Hungarian
4 entries- akasztó noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- bal farok noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- cedilla noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- cédille noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Ido
1 entries- cedilio noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Indonesian
1 entries- cedilla noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Irish
1 entries- straithín noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Italian
1 entries- cediglia noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Japanese
1 entries- セディーユ noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Korean
1 entries- 세디유 noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Manx
2 entries- seddag noun (mark placed under the letter c)
- straihleen noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Occitan
1 entries- cedilha noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Polish
1 entries- cedylla noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Portuguese
1 entries- cedilha noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Romanian
1 entries- sedilă noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Russian
1 entries- седи́ль noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Spanish
1 entries- cedilla noun (mark placed under the letter c)
Swedish
1 entries- cedilj noun (mark placed under the letter c)
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California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
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