Tje Explained

Tje (Ᲊ ᲊ) 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 pronounced as //tʲ//, like the pronunciation of the t in "tube" in British English.[1]

Computing codes

Tje was added to Unicode since version 16.0 at code points U+1C89 for capital Tje, and U+1C8A for lowercase Tje.[2]

Related letters and other similar characters

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Proposal to encode Cyrillic letter Khanty Tje . unicode.org. 2 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline .