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]
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
| 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
External links
References
- ^ Corbett, Professor Greville; Comrie, Professor Bernard (September 2003). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-86137-6.
- ^ Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013-05-07). The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-22296-3.