Dzhe (àÃÂ; italics: ààor <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">àÃÂ</span>; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">àÃÂ</span>), also spelled dà ¾e, 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 âÂÂjumpâÂÂ.
Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs ôö or ÃÂö, or to the letters Che with descender (ö ÷), Che with vertical stroke (ø ù), Khakassian Che (àÃÂ), Zhe with breve (àÃÂ), Zhe with diaeresis (àÃÂ), or Zhje (àÃÂ).
In the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph which, like the digraphs and , is treated as a single letter, including in crossword puzzles and for purposes of collation.
Abkhaz uses it to represent the voiced retroflex affricate . The digraph ÃÂÃÂ is used to represent the sound.
The letter Dzhe was first used in the 15th-century Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, as a modified form of the letter ÃÂ. Serbian scribes began using it in the 17th century. Vuk Karadà ¾iàincluded it in his Cyrillic script reform, when the letter entered widespread use.