đ

Letter

 * 1) The 8th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes written as dj.
 * and are quite often confused by non-native speakers.

Usage notes

 * Less common in modern usage, often written DD

Etymology 1
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from Czech alphabet , from Latin , which is a modification of capital letter , from letter. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy from.

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Etymology 2
Letter with a stroke to signify partial spirantization, which is sometimes also used in other phonetic transcriptions.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Usage notes
Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately [], no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

Preposition

 * 1) Written form of de often found on signs rather than in literature

Usage notes

 * The Đ Unicode character is not the same as the Spanish DE ligature, but the latter is not yet supported by Unicode. In the Spanish ligature the stroke does not cross the vertical of the D.