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   Cursive script 'd' and capital 'D' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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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
eedit| Egyptian hieroglyph door |
Phoenician daleth |
Greek Delta |
Etruscan D |
Roman D | ||
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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
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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
eedit- 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,
Computin codes
eedit| Character | D | d | ||
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| 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
eedit| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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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
eedit- ↑ "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
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Media relatit tae D at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o D at Wiktionary- The dictionar defineetion o d at Wiktionary
| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter D with diacritics
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| Ďď | Ḋḋ | Ḑḑ | Ḍḍ | Ḓḓ | Ḏḏ | Đđ | Ɖɖ | Ɗɗ | Ƌƌ | ᵭ | ᶁ | ᶑ | ȡ | ∂ | ||||||||||||
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