Nje

This article is about the Cyrillic letter. For its Latin-script equivalent, seeNj (digraph).For the jazz band, seeThe NJE.For other uses, seeNJE.

Nje,orÑe(Њ њ; italics:Њ њ;also callednye) is a letter of theCyrillic script.

Cyrillic letter Nje
Phonetic usage:	[ɲ]
TheCyrillic script
Slavicletters
А А́ А̀ А̂ А̄ Ӓ Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Е́ Ѐ Е̂ Е̄ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И І Ї Ꙇ И́ Ѝ И̂ Ӣ Й Ӥ Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О О́ О̀ О̂ Ō Ӧ П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У У́ У̀ У̂ Ӯ Ў Ӱ Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ꙏ Ъ Ъ̀ Ы Ы́ Ь Ѣ Э Э́ Ю Ю́ Ю̀ Я Я́ Я̀
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̊ А̃ Ӓ̄ Ӕ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ В̌ Ԝ Г̑ Г̇ Г̣ Г̌ Г̂ Г̆ Г̈ г̊ Ҕ Ғ Ӻ Ғ̌ ғ̊ Ӷ Г̡ Д́ Д̌ Д̈ Д̣ Д̆ Ӗ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Җ Ӝ Ӂ Ж̣ Ҙ Ӟ З̌ З̣ З̆ Ӡ И̃ Ҋ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ К̣ к̊ қ̊ Ԛ ᴫ Л́ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Л̈ Ӎ ᵸ Н́ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ О̆ О̃ Ӧ̄ Ө Ө̄ Ө́ Ө̆ Ӫ Ԥ П̈ Р̌ Ҏ С̌ Ҫ С̣ С̱ Т́ Т̈ Т̌ Т̇ Т̣ Ҭ Ᲊ У̃ Ӳ У̊ Ӱ̄ Ұ Ү Ү́ Х̣ Х̱ Х̮ Х̑ Х̌ Ҳ Ӽ х̊ Ӿ ӿ̊ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ц̌ Ц̈ Ҵ Ҷ Ҷ̣ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ч̇ Ч̣ Ҽ Ҿ Ш̣ ꚜ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ ꚝ Ҍ Ҩ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ӏ ʼ ˮ
Archaicor unused letters
А̨ Б̀ Б̣ Б̱ В̀ Г̀ Г̧ Г̄ Г̓ Ҕ̀ Ҕ̆ Ԁ Д̓ Д̀ Д̨ Ԃ Ꚁ Ꙣ Е̇ Е̨ Ж̀ Ж̑ Ꙃ Ꙅ Џ̆ Ꚅ Ꚅ̆ Ꙁ З̀ З̑ Ԅ Ԇ Ꚉ Ԫ Ꚃ Ꚕ І̂ І̣ І̨ Ј̵ Ј̃ Ꙉ К̓ К̀ К̆ Ӄ̆ К̑ К̇ К̈ К̄ Ԟ К̂ Л̀ Ԡ Ꙥ Ԉ Л̑ Л̇ Ԕ М̀ М̃ Ꙧ Н̀ Н̄ Н̧ Н̃ Ԋ Ԣ Н̡ Ѻ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ П̓ П̀ П́ Ҧ П̧ П̑ Ҁ Ԛ̆ Р́ Р̀ Р̃ Ԗ С̀ С̈ Ԍ Ҫ̓ Т̓ Т̀ Ԏ Т̑ Ꚋ Т̧ Ꚍ Ꚍ̆ Ѹ Ꙋ У̇ У̨ ꙋ́ Ф̑ Ф̓ Х́ Х̀ Х̆ Х̇ Х̧ Х̾ Х̓ һ̱ Ѡ Ꙍ Ѽ Ѿ Ꙡ Ц̀ Ц́ Ц̓ Ꚏ Ꚏ̆ Ꚑ Ч́ Ч̀ Ч̆ Ч̑ Ч̓ Ԭ Ꚓ Ꚇ Ꚇ̆ Ҽ̆ Ш̀ Ш̆ Ш̑ Щ̆ Ꚗ Ꚗ̆ Ъ̄ Ъ̈ Ъ̈̄ Ꙑ Ы̂ Ы̃ Ѣ́ Ѣ̈ Ѣ̆ Ꙓ Э̨ Э̂ Ꙕ Ю̂ Ꙗ Я̈ Я̂ Я̨ Ԙ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters List of Cyrillic multigraphs

Handwritten cursive form ofNje

It is aligatureof the Cyrillic lettersEn⟨н⟩andSoft Sign⟨ь⟩.It was invented byVuk Stefanović Karadžićfor use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph⟨нь⟩.It corresponds to thedigraph⟨nj⟩inGaj's Latin Alpha betforSerbo-Croatian.

It is today used inMacedonian,variants ofSerbo-Croatianwhen written in Cyrillic (Bosnian,Montenegrin,andSerbian),ItelmenandUdege,where it represents apalatal nasal/ɲ/,similar to the⟨ny⟩in "canyon "(cf. Polish⟨ń⟩,Czech and Slovak⟨ň⟩,Latvian ⟨ņ⟩, Galician and Spanish⟨ñ⟩,Occitan, Portuguese and Vietnamese⟨nh⟩,Catalan and Hungarian⟨ny⟩,and Italian and French⟨gn⟩).

Nje is commonly transliterated asnjbut it is also transliteratedńorņ.

Related letters and other similar characters

• Н н:Cyrillic letter En
• Ь ь:Cyrillic letter Soft sign
• Ñ ñ:Latin letter N with tilde- a Filipino, Spanish, and Tetum letter
• Ń ń:Latin letter N with acute- a Kashubian, Polish, and Sorbian letter
• Ň ň:Latin letter N with caron- a Czech, Turkmen, and Slovak letter
• Ņ ņ:Latin letter N with cedilla- a Latvian letter
• Љ љ:Cyrillic letter Lje
• Ԩ ԩ:Cyrillic letter En with left hook- a letter uses in Orok language.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Њ		њ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1034	U+040A	1114	U+045A
UTF-8	208 138	D0 8A	209 154	D1 9A
Numeric character reference	Њ	Њ	њ	њ
Named character reference	Њ		њ
Code page 855	147	93	146	92
Windows-1251	140	8C	156	9C
ISO-8859-5	170	AA	250	FA
Macintosh Cyrillic	190	BE	191	BF
IBM880	112	70	82	52

See also

• Iotation

External links

• The dictionary definition ofЊat Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition ofњat Wiktionary
• IBM EBCDIC (Cyrillic Russian) encoding - Windows charsets