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D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pron-en 'di?) is spelled dee, plural dees.
History 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 was pronounced /d/; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter B). Greek letter: ? (capital) or d (small) (Delta).
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, the letter d represents the sound IPA /d/, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound IPA /z/ in the north and IPA /j/ in the south. In Fijian it stands for the prenasalized stop IPA /nd/. In some languages where voiceless 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, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo, and the Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin.
Representations 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 represented as right hand held with index and thumb extended and slightly curved and tip of thumb and finger held against extended index of left hand.
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