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 pronounced as //c//, or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate pronounced as //tɕ//.[1] Kje is the 24th letter in this alphabet. It is romanised as (ḱ) or sometimes (ķ) or (kj).[2]Words with this sound are most often cognates to those in Serbo-Croatian with (ћ)/(ć) and in Bulgarian with (щ), (т) or (к). 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.