This specific key combination is not US keyboard specific.
I like how they managed to group characters that are formally similar by binding them to the same keys.
I appreciate that the designer of the layout clearly attempted to make some kind of mnemonic connection to the degree they could. Makes it easier to discover and remember the key-combos, even without a cheat sheet.
That's c-cedille here, because to write English fluently you need to be able to type French loan words like façade—but not quite so often as someone in Switzerland, probably (especially so in some parts of the country!) so I assume you've got it somewhere even more prominent on your keyboard.
Examples:
en and em are on -
Below are maybe Swiss specific?
~ is on N
@ is on G
| and \ and / are on 7
√ is on V
¥ is on Y and € is on E
∑ on W ( ∑ is a rotated W :)
etc.