Djerv

For other uses, see Djerv (disambiguation).

Djerv (majuscule: Ꙉ, minuscule: ꙉ) is one of the Cyrillic alphabet letters that was used in Old Cyrillic. It was used in many early Serbian monuments to represent the sounds /dʑ/ and /tɕ/ (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ).^[1] It exists in the Cyrillic Extended-B table as U+A648 and U+A649. It is the basis of the modern letters Ћ and Ђ; the former was in fact a direct revival of djerv and was considered the same letter.^[1]

Djerv, ꙉєрвъ (Early Cyrillic alphabet)
Ꙉ ꙉ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/dʑ/, /tɕ/
History
Descendants	Ћ, Ђ
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Djerv is also commonly used in Serbian Cyrillic, where it was an officially used letter. When it was placed before the letters н and л it was represented for the sounds /ɲ/ and /ʎ/, which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.

It can be transliterated as Ǵ.^[2]

Spelling Reforms and forming of the letters Ћ and Ђ

Serbian Cyrillic script, with djerv. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 16th century

The letter Ђ was formed in 1818 by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić after several proposals of reforming Djerv by Lukijan Mušicki and Gligorije Geršić.^[3][4][1] However the letter Ћ (also based on djerv) was first used by Dositej Obradović in a direct reform of djerv.^[5][6]

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ꙉ		ꙉ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJERV		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJERV
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	42568	U+A648	42569	U+A649
UTF-8	234 153 136	EA 99 88	234 153 137	EA 99 89
Numeric character reference	Ꙉ	Ꙉ	ꙉ	ꙉ