Dž is the seventh letter

Letter (alphabet)

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 of the Croatian

Croatian alphabet

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 and Bosnian alphabets, and the Latin forms of Serbian, Montenegrin

Montenegrin alphabet

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 and Macedonian

Macedonian alphabet

The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet , which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation....

, after D

D

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 and before Đ

D with stroke

Đ , formed from D with the addition of a bar or stroke through the letter. This is the same modification that was used to create eth , but eth is based on an insular variant of d while đ is based on its usual upright shape...

. It is pronounced d͡ʒ. Dž is a digraph

Digraph (orthography)

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 that corresponds to the letter Dzhe

Dzhe

Dzhe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jump"...

 (Џ/џ) of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

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 used for writing the Serbian

Serbian language

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, Montenegrin

Montenegrin language

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 and Macedonian language

Macedonian language

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s. It is also the tenth letter of the Slovak alphabet

Slovak alphabet

The Slovak alphabet uses a modification of the Latin alphabet. The modifications include the four diacriticals placed above certain letters. Therefore the Slovak alphabet has 46 graphemes.- Vowels :- Consonants :Notes...

.

Note that when the letter is the initial of a capitalized

Capitalization

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 word (like Džungla or Džemper, or personal names like Džemal or Džamonja

Dušan Džamonja

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), the ž is not uppercase. Only when the whole word is written in uppercase, Ž is capitalized.

In Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian, when the text is written vertically rather than horizontally (on signs, for instance), dž is written horizontally as a single letter; in particular, dž occupies a single square in crossword puzzle

Crossword Puzzle

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s. Also, in cases where words are written with a space between each letter, dž is written together without a space between d and ž. These characteristics are also shared by Lj and Nj. Similarly, when a name beginning with Dž is reduced to initial, the entire letter is initial, not just D. For example, Dženan Ljubović becomes Dž. Lj. and not D. L. This behaviour is not the case in Slovak, where it is often split into D/d and Ž/ž.

Czech does have the sound d͡ʒ, but in native Czech words it only occurs as a replacement of [t͡ʃ] before other voiced consonants. Therefore, [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] are written in native words using the same letter č. This is not possible in loanwords, and Czech adopted the Dž ortography in this case (for example džus). In this case, the two letters are always split when text is written vertically. Lithuanian similarly uses Dž without considering it a separate letter.

A Dž ligature

Ligature (typography)

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 is found in Unicode

Unicode

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 at code points 0x01C4 (uppercase), 0x01C5 (titlecase), and 0x01C6 (lowercase). The ligatures are very rarely used in digital media, which tends to favor the corresponding two-character combinations. Croatian and Bosnian computer keyboard

Computer keyboard

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s and typewriter

Typewriter

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s don't include a single key for the letter.