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Dje (Ђ ђ; italics: Ђ ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
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 /dʑ/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "juice".
Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in the Serbian Latin alphabet, and is transliterated thus. Strokes absent, it is transliterated as (Dj dj⟩.
Dje was constructed by request of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. 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 as a rotated and horizontally crossed g-shaped italic Cyrillic letter De.
The letter was also used in writing the Serbo-Croatian language prior to the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
The Macedonian letter Gje (Ѓ ѓ) is considered a cognate to Dje.