{{short description|Cyrillic letter}}{{Other uses}}{{Infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Kje (Tje) | image = Cyrillic letter Kje - uppercase and lowercase.svg | imagesize = 120px | imagealt = | phonemes = [{{IPA link|c}}], [{{IPA link|tɕ}}] | number = | fam1 = | equivalents = Q q | letter = Ќ ќ | language = Macedonian }}

'''Kje''' (Ќ&nbsp;ќ or Ḱ ḱ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ќ&nbsp;ќ'' or ''Ḱ ḱ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Macedonian alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive {{IPA|/c/}}, or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate {{IPA|/tɕ/}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Corbett |first1=Professor Greville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euI4CQAAQBAJ |title=The Slavonic Languages |last2=Comrie |first2=Professor Bernard |date=September 2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-86137-6 |language=en}}</ref> Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as {{angbr|ḱ}} or sometimes {{angbr|ķ}} or {{angbr|kj}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=George L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lQwRD2Cb8EC |title=The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets |last2=Moseley |first2=Christopher |date=2013-05-07 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-22296-3 |language=en}}</ref>

Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with {{angbr|ћ}}/{{angbr|ć}} and in Bulgarian with {{angbr|щ}}, {{angbr|т}} or {{angbr|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

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==Computing codes==

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==See also== * Iotation

==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|Ќ}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|ќ}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

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