| Dzhe | |
|---|---|
| Џ џ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [dʒ], [ɖʐ] |
| This article containsphonetic transcriptions in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, seeHelp:IPA. For the distinction between[ ],/ / and ⟨ ⟩, seeIPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. | |
Dzhe (Џ џ; italics:Џ џ orЏ џ; italics:Џ џ), also spelleddže, is a letter of theCyrillic script used inMacedonian andvarieties ofSerbo-Croatian (Montenegrin andSerbian) to represent thevoiced postalveolar affricate/d͡ʒ/, like the pronunciation of j in “jump”.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to thedigraphs дж or чж, or to the lettersChe with descender (Ҷ ҷ),Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ),Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ),Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ),Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), orZhje (Җ җ).
In the Latin version ofSerbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph⟨dž⟩ which, like the digraphs⟨lj⟩ and⟨nj⟩, is treated as a single letter, including in crossword puzzles and for purposes ofcollation.
Abkhaz uses it to represent thevoiced retroflex affricate/ɖʐ/. The digraph џь is used to represent the/dʒ/ sound.
The letter Dzhe was first used in the 15th-centuryRomanian Cyrillic alphabet, as a modified form of the letter ч.[1] Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century.[2]Vuk Karadžić included it in hisCyrillic script reform, when the letter entered widespread use.[1]
| Preview | Џ | џ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1039 | U+040F | 1119 | U+045F |
| UTF-8 | 208 143 | D0 8F | 209 159 | D1 9F |
| Numeric character reference | Џ | Џ | џ | џ |
| Named character reference | Џ | џ | ||
| Code page 855 | 155 | 9B | 154 | 9A |
| Windows-1251 | 143 | 8F | 159 | 9F |
| ISO-8859-5 | 175 | AF | 255 | FF |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 218 | DA | 219 | DB |
Italics indicate that the language no longer uses Cyrillic | |||||||||||||||||
| Cyrillic alphabets |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Cyrillization of | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
 | This article related to theCyrillic script is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
