Nje
Nje (Њ њ; italics: Њ њ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It is a ligature of the Cyrillic letters En ⟨н⟩ and Soft Sign ⟨ь⟩.[1] It was invented by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić for use in his 1818 dictionary, replacing the earlier digraph ⟨нь⟩.[1] It corresponds to the digraph ⟨nj⟩ in Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian.[1]
It is today used in Macedonian, variants of Serbo-Croatian when written in Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian), and Itelmen, where it represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/, similar to the ⟨ny⟩ in "canyon" (cf. Polish ⟨ń⟩, Czech and Slovak ⟨ň⟩, Spanish ⟨ñ⟩).
Related letters and other similar characters
- Н н : Cyrillic letter En
- Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign
- Ñ ñ : Latin letter N with tilde
- Ń ń : Latin letter N with acute
- Ň ň : Latin letter N with caron
- Љ љ : Cyrillic letter Lje
Computing codes
Character | Њ | њ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1034 | U+040A | 1114 | U+045A |
UTF-8 | 208 138 | D0 8A | 209 154 | D1 9A |
Numeric character reference | Њ | Њ | њ | њ |
Code page 855 | 147 | 93 | 146 | 92 |
Windows-1251 | 140 | 8C | 156 | 9C |
ISO-8859-5 | 170 | AA | 250 | FA |
Macintosh Cyrillic | 190 | BE | 191 | BF |
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