Dje

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Dje
Cyrillic letter Dje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
Usage
Writing system Cyrillic
Type Alphabetic
Sound values/d͡ʑ/
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Dje ђ; italics: Ђ ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Contents

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 has not been added in Unicode as a character, and was used before Dje took its current form.

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewЂђ
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJECYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode 1026U+04021106U+0452
UTF-8 208 130D0 82209 146D1 92
Numeric character reference ЂЂђђ
Named character reference Ђђ
Code page 8551298112880
Windows-1251 1288014490
ISO-8859-5 162A2242F2
Macintosh Cyrillic 171AB172AC

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899.
  2. Lalević, Miodrag S. (1953). Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom. Rad. p. 75. Облик му је у Вуковој азбуци дао песник Лукијан Мушицки
  3. Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971.