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D is the fourth letter of the latin alphabet. In unicode, it is encoded as Latin Capital Letter D, U+0044 (D) and Latin Small Letter D, U+0064 (d).

Appearance[]

The capital letter D is identical to Cherokee Letter A, U+13A0 (Ꭰ).

Usage[]

D is used in the vast majority of languages that use the latin alphabet. In some languages like Finnish, however, there are no voiced plosives, and therefore they only use it in loan words.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents a voiced alveolar plosive.

Diacritics, digraphs, ligatures and derivations[]

D can take some diacritics. Here are the precomposed letters in unicode.

Above the letter:

Diacritic Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
Dot (˙) U+1E0A U+1E0B e.g. Old Irish
Caron (ˇ) Ď U+010E ď U+010F e.g. Czech

Under the letter:

Diacritic Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
Dot U+1E0C U+1E0D ?
Comma (or cedilla) U+1E10 U+1E11 e.g. Livonian
Circumflex U+1E12 U+1E13 ?
Macron U+1E0E U+1E0F Old Hebrew transcription

Through the letter or as part of the letter:

Diacritic Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
Cedilla (or comma) U+1E10 U+1E11 e.g. UNGEGN romanization
Stroke Đ U+0110 đ U+0111 e.g. Sami
Middle tilde U+1D6D Phonetics?
Eth Ð U+00D0 ð U+00F0 e.g. Faroese
Tail (or "African") Ɖ U+0189 ɖ U+0256 e.g. IPA
Hook Ɗ U+018A ɗ U+0257 e.g. IPA
Palatal hook U+1D81 Phonetics?
Hook and tail U+1D91 IPA
Curl ȡ U+0221 Phonetics?
Topbar Ƌ U+018B ƌ U+018C Zhuang until 1986

Digraphs:

Letters All caps Unicode point Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
DZ digraph DZ U+01F1 Dz U+01F2 dz U+01F3 e.g. Romanization of Macedonian
DZ with caron digraph DŽ U+01C4 Dž U+01C5 dž U+01C6 e.g. Bosnian

Ligatures:

Letters Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
DB ligature ȸ U+0238 Phonetics
DZ ligature ʣ U+02A3 IPA
DZ with curl ligature ʥ U+02A5 IPA
DEZH ligature ʤ U+02A4 IPA

Derived letters:

Variation Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
Roman numeral U+216E U+217E Roman numerals, e.g. lists or page numbers
Small capital U+1D05 Phonetics?
Small capital ETH U+1D06 Phonetics?
Insular U+A779 U+A77A Midiaeval manuscripts
Dum U+A771 Scribal abbreviations
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