D

D
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursivescript 'd' and capital 'D' in theU.S. D'Nealian scriptstyle

D(nameddee/ˈdiː/^[1]) is the fowertlettero maist variants o thebasic modern Latin alphabet. Seembol "D" is500inRoman numerals.

History

Egyptian hieroglyph
door

Phoenician
daleth

Greek
Delta

Etruscan
D

Roman
D

The Semitic letterDâletmey hae developed frae thelogogramfor a fish or a door. Thare variousEgyptian hieroglyphsthat micht hae inspired this. In Semitic, Auncient Greek an Latin, the letter representit/d/;in theEtruscan alphabetthe letter wis superfluous but still retained (see letterB). The equivalentGreek letteris Delta, 'Δ'.

Theminuscule(lawer-case) fairm o 'd' consists o a luip an a tawverticalstroke. It developed bi gradual variations on the majuscule (caipital) form. In haundwritin, it wis common tae stairt the arc tae the left o the vertical stroke, resultin in aserifat the tap o the arc. This serif wis extendit while the rest o the letter wis reduced, resultin in an angled stroke an luip. The angled stroke slawly developed intae a vertical stroke.

Uisage

In naur aw leids that uise the Latin alphabet an theInternaitional Phonetic Alphabet'd' represents thevoiced alveolarorvoiced dental plosive/d/,but in theVietnamese alphabet,it represents the soond/z/(or/j/in soothren dialects). InFijianit represents aprenasalizedstap/nd/.^[2]In some leids whaurvoiceless unaspiratedstaps contrast wi voiceless aspiratit staps, 'd' represents an unaspirated/t/,while 't' represents an aspirated/tʰ/.Examples o sic leids includeIcelandic,Scottish Gaelic,Navajo,Estoniean thePinyintransleeteration oMandarin.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

Đ đ:Latin letter D wi stroke
Ɗ ɗ:Latin letter D wi huik
Ð ð:Latin letter Eth
Δ δ:Greek letter Delta
Д д:Cyrillic letter De
∂:the partial derivative seembol, $\partial$

Computin codes

Character	D		d
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D		LATIN SMALL LETTER D
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	68	U+0044	100	U+0064
UTF-8	68	44	100	64
Numeric chairacter reference	D	D	d	d
EBCDICfamily	196	C4	132	84
ASCII¹	68	44	100	64

¹An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodings.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Delta	–··

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Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet(ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-145

InBreetish Sign Leid(BSL), the letter 'd' is indicatit bi signin wi the richt haund held wi the index an thumb extendit an slichtly curved, an the tip o the thumb an finger held against the extendit index o the left haund.

References

↑"D"Oxford English Dictionary,2nd edition (1989);Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged(1993); "dee",op. cit.
↑Lynch, John (1998).Pacific languages: an introduction.University of Hawaii Press.p. 97.ISBN 0-8248-1898-9.

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[1] "D"Oxford English Dictionary,2nd edition (1989);Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged(1993); "dee",op. cit.

[2] Lynch, John (1998).Pacific languages: an introduction.University of Hawaii Press.p. 97.ISBN 0-8248-1898-9.

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