What is c?

c is the letter symbol.

C (uppercase) and c (lowercase) are the third alphabet in English and the 19th alphabet in Russian. For example: the first letter of the English word cloud and the Russian abbreviation СССР of "Soviet Union" is c. Origin:

(1) The origin of the letter C may be due to a throwing stick symbol, as in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and appeared very early in Semitic writing - about 1500 BC Sinai Peninsula.

(2) Around 1000 BC, Byblos (ancient Mediterranean port city, located in Jubail, north of present-day Beirut, Lebanon) became a prosperous Phoenician city in the second millennium BC. ) and some other places in Phoenicia and the center of Canaan, this symbol is of a specific linear form.

(3) For all linear forms. In the Semitic language this symbol is called gimel or gaml, which means throwing stick.