thumb|Various forms of the letter dzhe, including the word dzhelat (executioner).|class=skin-invert-image Dzhe (Џ џ; italics: Џ џ or Џ џ; italics: Џ џ), also spelled dže, is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of j in “jump”.
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Џ (dzhe) is a letter in the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian, Serbian, and Montenegrin to represent a specific consonant sound, similar to the "j" in "jump." It matters because it allows these languages to accurately write and distinguish this common sound in their writing systems.
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- Grapheme.script
- Cyrillic
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.name
- Dzhe
- Grapheme.image
- Cyrillic letter Dzhe - uppercase and lowercase.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.phonemes
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- Grapheme.fam1
- Ⱌ
- Grapheme.fam2
- Ц ц
- Grapheme.letter
- Џ џ
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thumb|Various forms of the letter dzhe, including the word dzhelat (executioner).|class=skin-invert-image Dzhe (Џ џ; italics: Џ џ or Џ џ; italics: Џ џ), also spelled dže, is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian and varieties of Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of j in “jump”.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs дж or чж, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ).