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 , or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as or sometimes or .
Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with / and in Bulgarian with , or . 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.
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