Tje ( ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It comes from a ligature of Te (Т т) and soft sign (Ь ь). The letter has been used in Surgut Khanty and Shurishkar Khanty since 2013, where it represents the palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive /tʲ/, like the pronunciation of the t in "tube" in British English.[1]
Computing codes
editTje was added to Unicode since version 16.0 at code points U+1C89 for capital Tje, and U+1C8A for lowercase Tje.[2]
Preview | | | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 7305 | U+1C89 | 7306 | U+1C8A |
UTF-8 | 225 178 137 | E1 B2 89 | 225 178 138 | E1 B2 8A |
Numeric character reference | Ᲊ |
Ᲊ |
ᲊ |
ᲊ |
Related letters and other similar characters
edit- Љ љ - Cyrillic letter Lje
- Њ њ - Cyrillic letter Nje
- Ԏ ԏ - Cyrillic letter Komi Tje
- Ћ ћ - Cyrillic letter Tshe
References
edit- ^ "Proposal to encode Cyrillic letter Khanty Tje" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ "Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline".