C in Bubble Letters — Copy & Paste

A capital C in a circle is the copyright symbol, ©, one of the most legally consequential characters in the world. It marks ownership on books, films, songs, code and web pages everywhere, and it descends from the 1909 US Copyright Act, which required published works to carry a copyright notice to be protected. That requirement has since relaxed — under the Berne Convention, works are protected the moment they are created, with or without the symbol — but the © endures as the near-universal shorthand for 'someone owns this'.

One nuance people get wrong: in US law, only the actual © character (or the full word 'Copyright') is official — the ASCII workaround '(c)' has been held in some courts not to satisfy a formal notice. So the symbol genuinely matters, which is exactly why it has its own dedicated code point.

Here is the distinction to keep straight: the copyright © is its own Unicode character, U+00A9, encoded for legal and publishing text. The bubble C you copy here is a different code point — Ⓒ (U+24B8), from the Enclosed Alphanumerics block — which merely looks similar. If you need the copyright symbol, © is the one to use; Ⓒ is the decorative circled letter, carrying no legal meaning whatsoever.

There is even a mirror-image counterpart worth knowing: 🄯 (U+1F12F), the copyleft symbol — a reversed C in a circle — coined by the free-software movement to signal the opposite of copyright, works you are explicitly free to copy and modify. Copyright faces right, copyleft faces left; the joke is built into the glyph.

C is a high-demand bubble letter — around five thousand searches a month across its query forms — carried by C-names (Chloe, Carlos, Cora, Caleb) and its steady frequency in English. The capital Ⓒ is one of the cleanest circled letters going: a simple open crescent that sits inside the ring without crowding or floating, so it reads well even at the phone sizes where bubble text lives.

Because its silhouette echoes the familiar ©, a circled C lends a username a faintly official, badge-like air. The lowercase ⓒ is the softer option for lowercase-styled names; preview your word in the converter below to check the C's weight against its neighbours.

Tap to copy Ⓒ (U+24B8) or ⓒ (U+24D2) — real Unicode text, no font needed. Just keep them apart from the legal symbols: © (U+00A9) is copyright and 🄯 (U+1F12F) is copyleft, and neither is the same character as the bubble Ⓒ.