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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Dje was constructed by request of <a href="/facts/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87/dIHJdL1g">Vuk Stefanović Karadžić</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> There were several proposed shapes of the letter (one by <a href="/facts/Pavle_Solari%C4%87/f6LAQahC">Pavle Solarić</a>, another by Gligorije Geršić). The variant now in use was designed by <a href="/facts/Lukijan_Mu%C5%A1icki/t4Fm2GXL">Lukijan Mušicki</a>;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> it was designed by modification of the letter <a href="/facts/%D0%8B/cVCEKYnw">Ћ</a>, itself a revival of the <a href="/facts/Old_Cyrillic/vuAUHp90">old Cyrillic</a> letter <a href="/facts/Djerv/ehPC3joL">Djerv</a> (Ꙉ).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> The new letter was adopted in Karadžić's 1818 dictionary and thus entered widespread usage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> 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. </p> <h2 id="related-letters-and-other-similar-characters">Related letters and other similar characters</h2> <ul><li>Ћ ћ: <a href="/facts/Tshe/cVCEKYnw">Cyrillic letter Tshe</a></li> <li>Ѓ ѓ: <a href="/facts/Gje/HWn7jvnR">Cyrillic letter Gje</a></li> <li>Đ đ: <a href="/facts/%C4%90/A6hNvmCp">Latin letter D with stroke</a></li> <li>Ď ď: <a href="/facts/%C4%8E/A6hNvmCp">Latin letter D with caron</a></li> <li>J j: <a href="/facts/J/I3pUoxSq">Latin letter J</a></li> <li>Ꙉ ꙉ: <a href="/facts/Djerv/ehPC3joL">Old Cyrillic letter Djerv</a></li></ul> <h2 id="computing-codes">Computing codes</h2> Character information<table><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Preview</th><th colspan="2">Ђ</th><th colspan="2">ђ</th></tr><tr><th>Unicode name</th><td colspan="2">CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE</td><td colspan="2">CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE</td></tr><tr><th>Encodings</th><th>decimal</th><th>hex</th><th>dec</th><th>hex</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a></td><td>1026</td><td>U+0402</td><td>1106</td><td>U+0452</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/UTF-8/xlaVHSyf">UTF-8</a></td><td>208 130</td><td>D0 82</td><td>209 146</td><td>D1 92</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Numeric_character_reference/wCEzNIlC">Numeric character reference</a></td><td>Ђ</td><td>Ђ</td><td>ђ</td><td>ђ</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references/Pw0NWQLP">Named character reference</a></td><td colspan="2">Ђ</td><td colspan="2">ђ</td></tr><tr><td>Code page 855</td><td>129</td><td>81</td><td>128</td><td>80</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Windows-1251/mb3epF8S">Windows-1251</a></td><td>128</td><td>80</td><td>144</td><td>90</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/ISO-8859-5/RCKfCDGm">ISO-8859-5</a></td><td>162</td><td>A2</td><td>242</td><td>F2</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Macintosh_Cyrillic_encoding/XcKtBYAu">Macintosh Cyrillic</a></td><td>171</td><td>AB</td><td>172</td><td>AC</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> The dictionary definition of Ђ at Wiktionary</li> <li> The dictionary definition of ђ at Wiktionary</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Lalević, Miodrag S. (1953). Potsetnik iz srpskohrvatskog jezika i pravopisa: s pravopisnim i jezičkim savetnikom. Rad. p. 75. Облик му је у Вуковој азбуци дао песник Лукијан Мушицки <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dWpEAAAAIAAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=dWpEAAAAIAAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Петар Ђорђић. Историја српске ћирилице. Београд, 1971. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>