U+045C "ќ" Cyrillic Small Letter Kje Unicode Character

U+045C "ќ" Cyrillic Small Letter Kje is a letter used in the Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless palatal plosive sound /c/ (similar to the "t" in "tune" but with the tongue against the hard palate). This character is derived from the Cyrillic letter К (ka) with a diacritical mark, and it is the lowercase form of the uppercase letter U+040C "Ќ". The letter is also used in some other languages and orthographies, such as certain dialects of Serbian, though it is most commonly associated with Macedonian, where it appears in words like "куќа" (house).

General Properties

Code Point	U+045C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Kje
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"к" U+043A Cyrillic Small Letter Ka "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ќ
HTML Hex Encoding	ќ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x045C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000045C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u045c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ќ" U+040C Cyrillic Capital Letter Kje
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ќ" U+040C Cyrillic Capital Letter Kje
Uppercase Code Point	"Ќ" U+040C Cyrillic Capital Letter Kje
Titlecase Code Point	"Ќ" U+040C Cyrillic Capital Letter Kje
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower