{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used in Serbian and Montenegrin}} {{other uses}} {{distinguish | text= the letter Ҕ (ge with middle hook), the letter Џ (dzhe), or the letter Tje}} {{infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = 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 | letter = Ђ ђ | language = Serbo-Croatian | equivalents = Đ đ, Ď ď, Dj dj | fam2 = Ћ ћ }}
'''Dje''' (Ђ ђ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Ђ'' ''ђ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet, used in Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate {{IPA|/d͡ʑ/}}.
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in 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.<ref name="Maretić">Maretić, Tomislav. ''Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika'', p. 14-15. 1899.</ref> 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;<ref name="Lalević1953">{{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}}</ref><ref>Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.</ref><ref name="Maretić" /> it was designed by modification of the letter Ћ, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ).<ref name="Maretić" /> The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.<ref name="Maretić" /> There was also a Д and Ь ligature variant that has not been added in Unicode as a character, and was used before Dje took its current form.{{Where|date=May 2025}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2025|reason=In what historical text is this ДЬ ligature in?}}
==Related letters and other similar characters== *Ћ ћ: Cyrillic letter Tshe *Ѓ ѓ: Cyrillic letter Gje *Đ đ: Latin letter D with stroke *Ď ď: Latin letter D with caron *J j: Latin letter J *Ꙉ ꙉ: Old Cyrillic letter Djerv *Ԃ ԃ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dje
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==Computing codes==
{{charmap |0402|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Dje |0452|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Dje |map1=Code page 855 |map1char1=81 |map1char2=80 |map2=Windows-1251 |map2char1=80 |map2char2=90 |map3=ISO-8859-5 |map3char1=A2 |map3char2=F2 |map4=Macintosh Cyrillic |map4char1=AB |map4char2=AC }}
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==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|Ђ}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|ђ}}
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