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{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used in Serbian}}
{{other uses}}
{{distinguish | text= the letter [[Ҕ|Ҕ (ge with middle hook)]], the letter [[dzhe|Џ (dzhe)]], or the letter [[Tje]]}}
{{infobox grapheme
| script = [[Cyrillic]]
| type = [[Alphabet]]
| typedesc = ic
| name = Dje
| image = Cyrillic letter Dje - uppercase and lowercase.svg
| imagealt = 
| phonemes = {{IPAslink|d͡ʑ|audio=yes}}
| number = 
| fam1 = 
| letter = Ђ ђ
| language = [[Serbo-Croatian]]
| equivalents = Đ đ, Ď&nbsp;ď, Dj&nbsp;dj
}}

'''Dje''' (Ђ&nbsp;ђ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''Ђ''&nbsp;''ђ''</span>) 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]] {{IPA|/d͡ʑ/}}.

Dje corresponds to the Latin letter [[D with stroke|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&nbsp;dj}} or {{angle bracket|Ď&nbsp;ď}}.

==History==
Dje was constructed by request of [[Vuk Karadžić|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: [[Tshe|Cyrillic letter Tshe]]
*Ѓ ѓ: [[Gje|Cyrillic letter Gje]]
*Đ đ: [[Đ|Latin letter D with stroke]]
*Ď ď: [[Ď|Latin letter D with caron]]
*J j: [[J|Latin letter J]]
*Ꙉ ꙉ: [[Djerv|Old Cyrillic letter Djerv]]
*Ԃ ԃ: [[Komi Dje|Cyrillic letter Komi Dje]]

{{anchor|Code positions}}

==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 encoding|Macintosh Cyrillic]] |map4char1=AB |map4char2=AC
}}

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Wiktionary-inline|Ђ}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|ђ}}

{{Cyrillic navbox}}

[[Category:Serbian letters]]