Kje
Appearance
Kje (or Tje) (Ќ ќ; italics: Ќ ќ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive /c/, or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/. Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanized as ⟨ḱ⟩ or sometimes ⟨kj⟩.
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with ⟨ћ⟩/⟨ć⟩ and in Bulgarian with ⟨щ⟩, ⟨т⟩ or ⟨к⟩. For example, Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, night) corresponds to Serbo-Croatian ноћ/noć, and Bulgarian нощ (nosht). The common surname ending -ić is spelled -иќ in Macedonian.
Related letters and other similar characters
- К к : Cyrillic letter Ka
- Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter Gje
Computing codes
Preview | Ќ | ќ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1036 | U+040C | 1116 | U+045C |
UTF-8 | 208 140 | D0 8C | 209 156 | D1 9C |
Numeric character reference | Ќ |
Ќ |
ќ |
ќ |
Named character reference | Ќ | ќ | ||
Code page 855 | 151 | 97 | 150 | 96 |
Windows-1251 | 141 | 8D | 157 | 9D |
ISO-8859-5 | 172 | AC | 252 | FC |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 205 | CD | 206 | CE |
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