Kje

This article is about the Cyrillic letter. For the Singaporean road abbreviated KJE, see Kranji Expressway. For the Latin letter, see Ḱ.

Kje (Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ) 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/.^[1] Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as ⟨ḱ⟩ or sometimes ⟨ķ⟩ or ⟨kj⟩.^[2]

Kje (Tje)
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[c], [tɕ]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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

• Ḱ ḱ : Latin letter K with acute
• Ķ ķ : Latin letter K with cedilla
• К к : Cyrillic letter Ka
• К̀ к̀ : Cyrillic letter Ka with grave
• Ћ ћ: Cyrillic letter Tshe
• Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter Gje
• Ť ť : Latin letter T with caron

Computing codes

Character information

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

See also

• Iotation

External links

• The dictionary definition of Ќ at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of ќ at Wiktionary