U+0452 "ђ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dje Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0452 "ђ" Cyrillic Small Letter Dje is a distinct letter used in the Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic alphabets, where it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate sound, similar to the "j" in English "jeep" but with a softer, more palatalized quality. It is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and corresponds to the Latin digraph "đ" or "dj" in romanization. The character's design typically features a horizontal stroke through the ascender of a lowercase "д", giving it a visually recognizable and unique form among Cyrillic letters. Its Unicode inclusion ensures digital representation and consistent text processing across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0452 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter Dje |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ђ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ђ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD1 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0452 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000452 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0452 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ђ" U+0402 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dje |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ђ" U+0402 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dje |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ђ" U+0402 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dje |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ђ" U+0402 Cyrillic Capital Letter Dje |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |