{{short description|Cyrillic letter}} {{about||the Latin letter|Ǵ|other uses|}} {{infobox grapheme | script = Cyrillic | type = Alphabet | typedesc = ic | name = Gje (Dshe) | image = Cyrillic letter Gje - uppercase and lowercase.svg | imagealt = | phonemes = [{{IPA link|ɟ}}], [{{IPA link|dʑ}}] | number = | fam1 = | letter = Ѓ ѓ | language = Macedonian language | equivalents = ǵ, Gj gj }}

'''Gje''' (or '''{{Not a typo|Dshe}}''') (Ѓ&nbsp;ѓ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Ѓ''&nbsp;''ѓ''</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Ѓ is used in Macedonian to represent the voiced palatal plosive {{IPA|/ɟ/}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Selvelli |first=Giustina |title=The Alphabet of Discord : the Ideologization of Writing Systems on the Balkans since the Breakup of Multiethnic Empires |date=2021 |publisher=Ibidem Verlag |isbn=978-3-8382-1537-2 |location=Berlin |pages=46 |oclc=1252961496}}</ref>

Ѓ is most commonly romanised using the Latin letter G with acute {{angbr|ǵ}}. When the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was part of SFR Yugoslavia, the Macedonian {{lang|mk|ѓ}} ({{transliteration|mk|ǵ}}) was also transliterated as ''đ'', ''ģ'', ''gj'', or ''dj''.

Words with this letter are often cognate with {{lang|bg|Жд&nbsp;жд}} ({{transliteration|bg|Zhd&nbsp;zhd}}) in Bulgarian and {{lang|sh|{{lang|sh-Cyrl|Ђ&nbsp;ђ}} / {{lang|sh-Latn|Đ&nbsp;đ}}}} in Serbo-Croatian.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kahl |first1=Thede |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJgtDwAAQBAJ |title=Romanica et Balcanica: Wolfgang Dahmen zum 65. Geburtstag |last2=Kramer |first2=Johannes |last3=Prifti |first3=Elton |date=2015-03-24 |publisher=Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM |isbn=978-3-95477-036-6 |pages=370–371 |language=de}}</ref> For example, the Macedonian word for ''birth'' ({{lang|mk|раѓање}} is {{transliteration|mk|raǵanje}}, which in Bulgarian is {{lang|bg|раждане}} - {{transliteration|bg|razhdane}}, and in Serbian {{lang|sr|{{lang|sr-Cyrl|рађање}} - {{lang|sr-Latn|rađanje}}}}).

==Related letters and other similar characters== *Ģ ģ: Latin letter G with cedilla - a Latvian letter *Г г: Cyrillic letter Ge *Ђ ђ: Cyrillic letter Dje *Ќ ќ: Cyrillic letter Kje *Ď ď: Latin letter D with caron

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==Computing codes==

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== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|Ѓ}} *{{Wiktionary-inline|ѓ}}

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