Zje (ÃÂà÷ÃÂ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">ÃÂà÷ÃÂ</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from the Cyrillic Ze (à÷ <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">à÷</span>) with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in the Montenegrin alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolo-palatal fricative /ÃÂ/. It corresponds to the Latin à ¹.
One of the first observations of the sound /ÃÂ/ in Montenegrin, was made by Vuk Karadà ¾iàin 1818, in his article "Srpski rjeÃÂnik istolkovan njemaÃÂkim i latinskim rijeÃÂima" in which he notes that Herzegovians (a cultural region which stretches over Montenegro, thus presumably he also referred to Montenegrins considering he notes words such as ià ºeo, which are present in Montenegro but not in Herzegovina): "Ercegovci, kaà ¡to izgovaraju s pred j kao Poljsko à Â, a z kao à º, n. p. sjekira, sjutra, izjeo..." First instance of usage of the accented Cyrillic letter ֈwas in 1926. by Danilo Vuà ¡oviÃÂ. It came into official use in mid-2009, with the adoption of the Law on the Official Language in Montenegro.
The letter originates from rural areas in Montenegro.
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter ÃÂÃÂ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as ÃÂ+ (U+0301).