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 .
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 .
History Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. 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;Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971. 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.
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 Ԃ ԃ: Cyrillic letter Komi Dje
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