C

How to type it

Left middle finger; hold Shift for the capital. Introduced in Lesson 13: Bottom row: c and ,.

Common uses

• C has a hard sound as in cat and a soft sound as in city, usually before e, i, or y.
• A C grade usually marks average work in American schools.

Less common uses

• C is the Roman numeral for 100.
• In hexadecimal, C stands for the value twelve.
• C is the chemical symbol for carbon.