D

D
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'd' and capital 'D' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

D (named dee /ˈdiː/^[1]) is the fowert letter o maist variants o the basic modern Latin alphabet. Seembol "D" is 500 in Roman numerals.

History

Egyptian hieroglyph
door

Phoenician
daleth

Greek
Delta

Etruscan
D

Roman
D

The Semitic letter Dâlet mey hae developed frae the logogram for a fish or a door. Thare various Egyptian hieroglyphs that micht hae inspired this. In Semitic, Auncient Greek an Latin, the letter representit /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter wis superfluous but still retained (see letter B). The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, 'Δ'.

The minuscule (lawer-case) fairm o 'd' consists o a luip an a taw vertical stroke. 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 a serif at 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 the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet 'd' represents the voiced alveolar or voiced dental plosive /d/, but in the Vietnamese alphabet, it represents the soond /z/ (or /j/ in soothren dialects). In Fijian it represents a prenasalized stap /nd/.^[2] In some leids whaur voiceless unaspirated staps contrast wi voiceless aspiratit staps, 'd' represents an unaspirated /t/, while 't' represents an aspirated /tʰ/. Examples o sic leids include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo, Estonie an the Pinyin transleeteration o Mandarin.

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
EBCDIC family	196	C4	132	84
ASCII ¹	68	44	100	64

¹ An 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

In Breetish 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.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae D at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o D at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o d at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter D with diacritics
Ďď	Ḋḋ	Ḑḑ	Ḍḍ	Ḓḓ	Ḏḏ	Đđ	Ɖɖ	Ɗɗ	Ƌƌ	ᵭ	ᶁ	ᶑ	ȡ	∂
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[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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