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From Gaj's Latin alphabet Đ, from Czech alphabet D, from Latin D, from the Etruscan letter 𐌃(d, “de”), from the Ancient Greek letter Δ(D, “delta”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤃(d, “dalet”), from an uncertain origin, likely the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓉿. Pronunciation as IPA(key): /d͡ʒə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy from GermanD.
The Unicode character Đ is not the same as the Spanish DE ligature, but the latter is not supported by Unicode. In the Spanish ligature the cross stroke does not extend to the left of the vertical stroke of the D.