| Script: | Cyrillic |
| Type: | Alphabet |
| Typedesc: | ic |
| Dje | |
| Imageclass: | skin-invert-image |
| Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/ |
| Fam1: | Ꙉ ꙉ |
| Letter: | Ђ ђ |
| Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
| Equivalents: | Đ đ, Ď ď, Dj dj |
| Fam2: | Ћ ћ |
Dje (Ђ ђ; italics:
Ђ ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet, used in Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate pronounced as //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 or .
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] it was designed by modification of the letter Ћ, itself a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ). The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage. 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.
