U+040F "Џ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Џ
U+040F "Џ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzhe is a letter used in the Cyrillic alphabets for several South Slavic languages, primarily Serbian and Macedonian, where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate sound similar to the “j” in English “jam” or the “g” in “gem.” Its lowercase form is “џ” at code point U+045F, and the character is uniquely placed in the Cyrillic block of Unicode, distinct from other Cyrillic letters. Historically, it emerged as a necessary glyph to transcribe a sound not present in standard Church Slavonic, and it is often the last letter in the alphabets of languages that use it.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+040F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzhe |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Џ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Џ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD0 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x040F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000040F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u040f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| Lowercase Code Point | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| Simple Case Folding | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| Case Folding | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "џ" U+045F Cyrillic Small Letter Dzhe |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |