Kje
Appearance
Kje(Ќ ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics:Ќ ќorḰ ḱ) is a letter of theCyrillic script,used only in theMacedonianAlpha bet, where it represents thevoiceless palatal plosive/c/,or thevoiceless alveolo-palatal affricate/tɕ/.[1]Kje is the 24th letter in this Alpha bet. It is romanised as⟨ḱ⟩or sometimes⟨ķ⟩or⟨kj⟩.[2]
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those inSerbo-Croatianwith⟨ћ⟩/⟨ć⟩and inBulgarianwith⟨щ⟩,⟨т⟩or⟨к⟩.For example, Macedonian ноќ (noḱ,night) corresponds to Serbo-Croatian ноћ/noć,and Bulgarian нощ (nosht). The common surname ending-ićis spelled -иќ in Macedonian.
Related letters and other similar characters
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Corbett, Professor Greville; Comrie, Professor Bernard (September 2003).The Slavonic Languages.Routledge.ISBN978-1-136-86137-6.
- ^Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013-05-07).The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets.Routledge.ISBN978-1-135-22296-3.