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redirect|?|the U.S. political party using the enclosed alphanumeric|enclosed D as its logo|Democratic Party (United States)other uses ofHatnote|For Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Colons|technical reasons , :D redirects here. For the emoticon :D , see Emoticon . Hatnote|For Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Forbidden characters|technical reasons , D# redirects here. For the musical note, see D? (musical note) .pp-move-indef|small=yesRefimprove|date=February 2007Latin alphabet navbox|uc=D|lc=d D (IPAc-en|icon|'|d|i?; English_alphabet#Letter_names|named dee )"D" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); '' Merriam-Webster 's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "dee", op. cit. is the fourth Letter (alphabet)|letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet .
History
Egyptian hieroglyph door
Phoenician dalet h
Delta (letter)>Delta
Etruscan D
Roman D
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The Semitic letter Daleth|Dâlet may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyph s that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek, and Latin, the letter represented IPA|/d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B ). The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, ? Delta (letter)|? ?.Citation needed|date=September 2007 The Lower case|minuscule (lower-case) form of ?d? consists of a loop and a tall Vertical direction|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 IPA|/d/, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound IPA|/z/ (pronounced IPA|/j/ in the southern variety). In Fijian language|Fijian it represents a prenasalized consonant|prenasalized stop IPA|/nd/.Cite book |title=Pacific languages: an introduction |first=John |last=Lynch |page=97 |url= http://books.google.com/books? id=zYfV1jN3whUC& pg=PA97& dq=d+fijian+prenasalized#v=onepage& q=d%20fijian%20prenasalized& f=false |year=1998 |publisher= University of Hawaii Press |isbn=0824818989 In some languages where voice (phonetics)|voice less aspiration (phonetics)|unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, ?d? represents an unaspirated IPA|/t/, while ?t? represents an aspirated IPA|/t?/. Examples of such languages include Icelandic language|Icelandic , Scottish Gaelic , Navajo language|Navajo , and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin .
Related letters and other similar characters
Ð d : Ð|Latin letter D with stroke
unicode|? ? : ?|Latin letter D with hook
Ð ð : Ð|Latin letter Eth
? d : Delta (letter)|Greek letter Delta
? ? : De (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter De
? : ?|the partial derivative symbol ,
Computing codes
character
Unicode name
character encoding
Unicode
UTF-8
Numeric character reference
EBCDIC family
ASCII 1
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
Letter other reps|NATO=Delta |Morse=–·· |Character=D4 |Braille=?
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.
References
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External links
Commons-inline|D
Wiktionary-inline|D
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Latin alphabet|D| Category:ISO basic Latin letters
