Tje ( ; italics:
'''' '''') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. It comes from a
ligature Ligature may refer to:
Language
* Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol (typography and calligraphy)
* Ligature (grammar), a morpheme that links two words
Medicine
* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture us ...
of
Te (Т т) and
soft sign
The soft sign (Ь ь; italics: ) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short or reduced front vowel. However, over time, the specific vowel sound it denote ...
(Ь ь). The letter has been used in
Eastern Khanty and
Northern Khanty since 2013, where it represents the
palatalized voiceless alveolar plosive
The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postal ...
, like the pronunciation of the t in "tube" in British English.
Computing codes
Tje was added to
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
with version 16.0:
Related letters and other similar characters
*Љ љ -
Cyrillic letter Lje
*Њ њ -
Cyrillic letter Nje
*Ԏ ԏ -
Cyrillic letter Komi Tje
*Ћ ћ -
Cyrillic letter Tshe
References
Cyrillic ligatures
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