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 Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /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 ⟨Dj dj⟩ or ⟨Ď ď⟩.
History
Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.[1] 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;[2][3][1] it was designed by modification of the letter Ћ, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ).[1] The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.[1] There was also a Д and Ь ligature variant that hasn't been added in Unicode as a character, and was used before Dje took its current form.
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
Computing codes
| Preview | Ђ | ђ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | 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 |
| Named character reference | 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 |
References
- ^ a b c d Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899.
- ^ Lalević, Miodrag S. (1953). Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom. Rad. p. 75.
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- ^ Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.
