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form; all-

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form DŽ,

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dž) is the seventh letter of the

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( Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and

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), after D and before Đ. It is pronounced . Dž is a digraph that corresponds to the letter

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(Џ/џ) of the

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. It is also the tenth letter of the Slovak alphabet. Although several other languages (see below) also use the letter combination ''DŽ'', they treat it as a pair of the letters '' D'' and '' Ž'', not as a single distinct letter. Note that when the letter is the initial of a capitalised word (like ''Džungla'' or ''Džemper'', or personal names like ''Džemal'' or '' Džamonja''), the ž is not

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. Only when the whole word is written in uppercase, is the Ž capitalised. The capitalized version of this letter ('Ǆ'), as a single character in

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, is also the largest character amongst every Latin character in size (in blocks Basic Latin,

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Treatment as a single letter

(used for

), when the text is written vertically rather than horizontally (on signs, for instance), ''dž'' is written horizontally as a single letter; in particular, ''dž'' occupies a single square in

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s. Also, in cases where words are written with a space between each letter, ''dž'' is written together without a space between ''d'' and ''ž''. These characteristics are also shared by Lj and Nj. Similarly, when a name beginning with Dž is reduced to initial, the entire letter is initial, not just D. For example, Dženan Ljubović becomes Dž. Lj. and not D. L. This behaviour is not the case in Slovak, where it is split into D/d and Ž/ž.

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does have the sound , but in native Czech words it only occurs as a replacement of before other voiced consonants. Therefore, and are written in native words using the same letter ''č''. This is not possible in loanwords, and Czech adopted the Dž orthography in this case (for example ''džus''). In this case, the two letters are always split when text is written vertically. Lithuanian and Latvian similarly use ''Dž'' without considering it a separate letter. Letter "Dž" is found in

at code points U+01C4 (uppercase, Ǆ), U+01C5 (titlecase, ǅ), and U+01C6 (lowercase, ǆ). Unicode representations of the letter are very rarely used in digital media, which tends to favor the corresponding two-character combinations. Manufacturers of

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s for Croatian users typically do not provide a single key for the letter.

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s for entering Unicode representation of the letter on standard Croatian keyboard.

Sources

Hrvatski pravopis - Slova

References

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