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D
Basic Latin alphabet
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

D (/[unsupported input]d/; named dee)[1] is the fourth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.

History

Egyptian hieroglyph
door
Proto-Semitic
Dal, Daleth
Phoenician
daleth
Greek
Delta
Etruscan
D
Roman
D
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Proto-semiticD-01.pngProto-semiticD-02.png PhoenicianD-01.png Delta uc lc.svg EtruscanD-01.svg Roman D

The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek, and Latin, the letter represented /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B). The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, ‹Δ›.[citation needed]

The minuscule (lower-case) form of ‹d› consists of a loop and a tall vertical stroke. It developed by gradual variations on the majuscule (capital) form. In handwriting, it was common to start the arc to the left of the vertical stroke, resulting in a serif at the top of the arc. This serif was extended while the rest of the letter was reduced, resulting in an angled stroke and loop. The angled stroke slowly developed into a vertical stroke.

Usage

In most languages using the Latin alphabet, ‹d› represents the voiced alveolar plosive /d/, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound /z/ (pronounced /j/ in the southern variety). In Fijian it represents a prenasalized stop /nd/.[2] In some languages where voiceless unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, ‹d› represents an unaspirated /t/, while ‹t› represents an aspirated /tʰ/. Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo, and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin.

Computing codes

Alternative representations of D
NATO phonetic Morse code
Delta –··
ICS Delta.svg Semaphore Delta.svg ⠙
Signal flag Flag semaphore Braille

In Unicode the capital ‹D› is codepoint U+0044 and the lower case ‹d› is U+0064.

The ASCII code for capital ‹D› is 68 and for lower case ‹d› is 100; or in binary 01000100 and 01100100, respectively.

The EBCDIC code for capital ‹D› is 196 and for lowercase ‹d› is 132.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "D" and "d" for upper and lower case, respectively.

In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter ‹d› is indicated by signing with the right hand held with index and thumb extended and slightly curved and tip of thumb and finger held against extended index of left hand.

See also

References

  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 0824818989.

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