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Cyrillic letter Dje 
Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+0402 minuscule: U+0452 Cyrillic script
Slavic lettersА Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я Non-Slavic letters Ӑ Ӓ Ә Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚉ Ӗ Ӂ Җ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ Ӧ Ө Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ҭ Ԏ Ӯ Ӱ Ӳ Ү Ұ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Ԧ Ҵ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ӹ Ҍ Ӭ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ Archaic letters Ҁ Ѻ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѣ Ꙓ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs Dje (Ђ ђ; italics: Ђ ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/, similar to the pronunciation of ‹j› in "jet".
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in the Serbian Latin alphabet, and is transliterated thus. It is sometimes transliterated as ‹dj›, although many consider this to be incorrect.
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History
Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by Pavle Solarić, another by Gligorije Geršić). The variant now in use was designed by Lukijan Mušicki as a rotated and horizontally crossed g-shaped italic Cyrillic letter De. [1]
The letter was also used in writing the Serbo-Croatian language prior to the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
The Macedonian letter Gje (Ѓ ѓ) is considered a cognate to Dje.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ћ ћ : Cyrillic letter Tshe
- Ѓ ѓ : Cyrillic letter Gje
- Đ đ : Latin letter D with stroke
- J j : Latin letter J
- Ꙉ ꙉ : Old Cyrillic letter Djerv
Computing codes
character Ђ ђ Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE character encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 1026 0402 1106 0452 UTF-8 208 130 D0 82 209 146 D1 92 Numeric character reference Ђ Ђ ђ ђ Code page 855 129 81 128 80 Windows-1251 128 80 144 90 ISO-8859-5 162 A2 242 F2 Macintosh Cyrillic 171 AB 172 AC References
- ^ Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.
External links
The Wiktionary definition of Ђ- The Wiktionary definition of ђ
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