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{{Short description|Letter of the Cyrillic script}} {{distinguish | text= the letters Ц (tse) or Ђ (dje) or the Latin letter U}} {{Redirect|Dzh|the Serbian political party|Democratic Union of Croats{{!}}DZH|the airport with the IATA code DZH|Dazhou Jinya Airport}} {{Infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Dzhe | image = Cyrillic letter Dzhe - uppercase and lowercase.svg | imageclass = skin-invert-image | imagealt = | phonemes = {{IPAblink|dʒ}}, {{IPAblink|ɖʐ}} | number = | fam1 = Ⱌ | fam2 = Ц ц | letter = Џ џ }}

[[File:Cyrill small and capital letter dzhe.jpg|thumb|Various forms of the letter ''dzhe'', including the word ''dzhelat'' (executioner).|class=skin-invert-image]] '''Dzhe''' (Џ џ; italics: ''Џ џ'' or <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">Џ џ</span>; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Џ џ''</span>), also spelled '''dže''', is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}}, like the pronunciation of j in “'''j'''ump”.

Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs дж or чж, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ).

In the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph {{angbr|dž}} which, like the digraphs {{angbr|lj}} and {{angbr|nj}}, is treated as a single letter, including in crossword puzzles and for purposes of collation.

Abkhaz uses it to represent the voiced retroflex affricate {{IPA|/ɖʐ/}}. The digraph џь is used to represent the {{IPA|/dʒ/}} sound.

==History== The letter Dzhe was first used in the 15th-century Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, as a modified form of the letter ч.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Maretić |first=T. (Tomislav) |url=https://archive.org/details/gramatikaistili00maregoog/page/n6/mode/1up |title=Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskogo književnog jezika |date=1899 |publisher=Zagreb : Štampa i naklada knjižare L. Hartmana |others=University of California}}</ref> Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Đorđić |first=Petar |title=Istorija Srpske Ćirilice {{!}} PDF |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/329929820/Petar-%C4%90or%C4%91i%C4%87-Istorija-srpske-%C4%87irilice |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Scribd |language=Bosnian}}</ref> Vuk Karadžić included it in his Cyrillic script reform, when the letter entered widespread use.<ref name=":0" />

==Related letters and other similar characters== *Dž : Digraph Dž *J j : Latin letter J *G g : Latin letter soft G, the romanization and Latin equivalent of {{angbr|џ}} in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet *Ӂ ӂ : Cyrillic letter Ӂ *Ӝ ӝ : Cyrillic letter Ӝ *Җ җ : Cyrillic letter Җ *Ц ц : Cyrillic letter Ц *Ч ч : Cyrillic letter Ч *Ҷ ҷ : Cyrillic letter Ҷ *Ӌ ӌ : Cyrillic letter Ӌ *Ҹ ҹ : Cyrillic letter Ҹ

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==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|Џ}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|џ}}

Category:Cyrillic letters