Dje

Dje (Ђ ђ; italics: Ђ ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /dʑ/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "juice".

Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in the Serbian Latin alphabet, and is transliterated thus. Strokes absent, it is transliterated as (Dj dj⟩.

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.

The letter was also used in writing the Serbo-Croatian language prior to the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

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
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1026	U+0402	1106	U+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

External links

• The dictionary definition of Ђ at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of ђ at Wiktionary