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 (˙) | Ḋ | U+1E0A | ḋ | 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 | Ḍ | U+1E0C | ḍ | U+1E0D | ? |
Comma (or cedilla) | Ḑ | U+1E10 | ḑ | U+1E11 | e.g. Livonian |
Circumflex | Ḓ | U+1E12 | ḓ | U+1E13 | ? |
Macron | Ḏ | U+1E0E | ḏ | 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) | Ḑ | U+1E10 | ḑ | U+1E11 | e.g. UNGEGN romanization |
Stroke | Đ | U+0110 | đ | U+0111 | e.g. Sami |
Middle tilde | ᵭ | 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 | ᶁ | U+1D81 | Phonetics? | ||
Hook and tail | ᶑ | 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 | Ⅾ | U+216E | ⅾ | U+217E | Roman numerals, e.g. lists or page numbers |
Small capital | ᴅ | U+1D05 | Phonetics? | ||
Small capital ETH | ᴆ | U+1D06 | Phonetics? | ||
Insular | Ꝺ | U+A779 | ꝺ | U+A77A | Midiaeval manuscripts |
Dum | ꝱ | U+A771 | Scribal abbreviations |