Dzhe
Encyclopedia
Dzhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
used in Serbian
and Macedonian
to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate
/dʒ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump". Sometimes, the name dzherv is used, following the pattern of traditional names such as cherv for ⟨Ч
⟩ and djerv or gjerv for ⟨Ђ
⟩.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs
⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender , Che with vertical stroke , Khakassian Che
, Zhe with breve
, Zhe with diaeresis
, or Zhje
.
In the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph ⟨dž⟩ which, like the digraphs ⟨lj⟩ and ⟨nj⟩, is treated as a single letter, including in crosswords and other puzzles.
Abkhaz uses it to represent the same sound as Dje
, and uses a dzhe-soft sign ligature to represent the same sound it does in Serbian.
. Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century. Vuk Karadžić included it in his Cyrillic alphabet
reform.
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
used in Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
and Macedonian
Macedonian language
Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate
Voiced postalveolar affricate
The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dZ⟩...
/dʒ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump". Sometimes, the name dzherv is used, following the pattern of traditional names such as cherv for ⟨Ч
Che (Cyrillic)
Che or Cha is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "change"....
⟩ and djerv or gjerv for ⟨Ђ
Dje
Dje is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate , similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet".Dje corresponds to the Latin...
⟩.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs
Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used to write one phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined...
⟨дж⟩ or ⟨чж⟩, or to the letters Che with descender , Che with vertical stroke , Khakassian Che
Khakassian Che
Khakassian Che is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che .Khakassian Che is used in the alphabet of the Khakas language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump".Khakassian Che corresponds in other...
, Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve
Zhe with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe ....
, Zhe with diaeresis
Zhe with diaeresis
Zhe with diaeresis is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe .Zhe with diaeresis is used in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam".Zhe with diaeresis...
, or Zhje
Zhje
Zhje or Zhe with descender is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe .Zhje is used in the alphabets of the Dungan, Kalmyk, Tatar and Turkmen languages....
.
In the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph ⟨dž⟩ which, like the digraphs ⟨lj⟩ and ⟨nj⟩, is treated as a single letter, including in crosswords and other puzzles.
Abkhaz uses it to represent the same sound as Dje
Dje
Dje is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and of the Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate , similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jet".Dje corresponds to the Latin...
, and uses a dzhe-soft sign ligature to represent the same sound it does in Serbian.
History
The origin of the letter Dzhe is the 15th century Romanian Cyrillic alphabetRomanian Cyrillic alphabet
The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Romanian language before 1860–1862, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based Romanian alphabet. Cyrillic remained in occasional use until circa 1920...
. Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century. Vuk Karadžić included it in his Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
reform.
Related letters and other similar characters
- DŽ Dž dž : Latin letter Dz with caronDžDž is the seventh letter of the Croatian and Bosnian alphabets, and the Latin forms of Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian, after D and before Đ. It is pronounced . Dž is a digraph that corresponds to the letter Dzhe of the Cyrillic alphabet used for writing the Serbian, Montenegrin and...
- J j : Latin letter JJĴ or ĵ is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound .While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic...
Computing codes
| character | Џ | џ | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1039 | 040F | 1119 | 045F |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
208 143 | D0 8F | 209 159 | D1 9F |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Џ | Џ | џ | џ |
| Code page 855 Code page 855 Code page 855 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. This code page is not used much.-Code page layout:... |
155 | 9B | 154 | 9A |
| Windows-1251 Windows-1251 Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages... |
143 | 8F | 159 | 9F |
| ISO-8859-5 | 175 | AF | 255 | FF |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 218 | DA | 219 | DB |