Ꙉ/ꙉ

Also known as Ꙉ, ꙉ, Cyrillic letter djerv, djerv (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter dierv, dierv (Cyrillic)

Djerv or Đerv (, ; 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 and (modern đ/ђ and ć/ћ). 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.

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Grapheme.script: Cyrillic
Grapheme.type: Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc: ic
Grapheme.name: Djerv ()
Grapheme.image: Cyrillic letter Djerv.svg
Grapheme.phonemes: /dʑ/, /tɕ/
Grapheme.letter: Ꙉ ꙉ
Grapheme.children: Ћ ћ

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Commons category: Cyrillic Djerv
native label: Ꙉ

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Spelling reforms and forming of the letters Ћ and Ђ
Computing codes
References
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Djerv is also commonly used in Serbian Cyrillic, where it was an officially used letter. When placed before the letters н and л it represented the sounds and , which are represented by Њ and Љ today, respectively.