# Dje
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{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used in Serbian and Montenegrin}}
{{other uses}}
{{distinguish | text= the letter [Ҕ (ge with middle hook)](/source/%D2%94), the letter [Џ (dzhe)](/source/dzhe), or the letter [Tje](/source/Tje)}}
{{infobox grapheme
| script = [Cyrillic](/source/Cyrillic)
| type = [Alphabet](/source/Alphabet)
| typedesc = ic
| name = Dje
| image = Cyrillic letter Dje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
| imageclass = skin-invert-image
| imagealt =
| phonemes = {{IPAslink|d͡ʑ|audio=yes}}
| number =
| fam1 = [Ꙉ ꙉ](/source/Djerv)
| letter = Ђ ђ
| language = [Serbo-Croatian](/source/Serbo-Croatian)
| equivalents = Đ đ, Ď ď, Dj dj
| fam2 = [Ћ ћ](/source/Tshe)
}}
'''Dje''' (Ђ ђ; italics: ''Ђ'' ''ђ'') is a letter of the [Cyrillic script](/source/Cyrillic_script).
Dje is the sixth letter of the [Serbian Cyrillic alphabet](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet) and [Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet](/source/Montenegrin_Cyrillic_alphabet), used in [Serbo-Croatian](/source/Serbo-Croatian) to represent the [voiced alveolo-palatal affricate](/source/voiced_alveolo-palatal_affricate) {{IPA|/d͡ʑ/}}.
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter [D with stroke (Đ đ)](/source/D_with_stroke) in [Gaj's Latin alphabet](/source/Gaj's_Latin_alphabet) of Serbo-Croatian and is so transliterated. When strokes are unavailable, it is transliterated as {{angle bracket|Dj dj}} or {{angle bracket|Ď ď}}.
==History==
Dje was constructed by request of [Vuk Stefanović Karadžić](/source/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87).[Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika'', p. 14-15. 1899.] There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by [Pavle Solarić](/source/Pavle_Solari%C4%87), another by [Gligorije Geršić](/source/Gligorije_Ger%C5%A1i%C4%87)). The variant now in use was designed by [Lukijan Mušicki](/source/Lukijan_Mu%C5%A1icki);[{{cite book|last=Lalević|first=Miodrag S.|title=Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWpEAAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Rad|page=75|quote= Облик му је у Вуковој азбуци дао песник Лукијан Мушицки}}][Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.]