D 8123 226179349 2008-07-17T05:00:28Z DHN-bot 575307 robot Modifying: [[tr:D (harf)]] {{otherusesof}} {{dablink|For the emoticon '':D'', see [[Emoticon]]. (For [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Colon|technical reasons]], ''''':D''''' brings you here.)}} {{wiktionarypar2|D|d}} {{Latin alphabet navbox|uc=D|lc=d}} '''D''' is the fourth letter in the [[Latin alphabet]]. Its name in [[English language|English]] is spelled '''dee''' or occasionally '''de''' ({{pronEng|diː}}).<ref>"D" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "dee," op. cit.</ref> == History == {| class="wikitable" |- style="background-color:#EEEEEE; text-align:center;" ! Egyptian hieroglyph <br>door ! Proto-Semitic <br>Dal, Daleth ! Phoenician <br>Daleth ! Etruscan <br>D ! Greek <br>Delta ! Roman <br>D |- style="background-color:white; text-align:center;" |<hiero>O31</hiero> |[[Image:Proto-semiticD-01.png]][[Image:Proto-semiticD-02.png]] |[[Image:PhoenicianD-01.png]] |[[Image:EtruscanD-01.svg|64px]] |[[Image:Delta uc lc.svg|64px]] |[[Image:RomanD-01.png|Roman D]] |}{{Fact|date=September 2007}} The Semitic letter [[Daleth|Dâlet]] probably 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 was pronounced /d/; in the [[Etruscan alphabet]] the letter was superfluous, but still maintained (see letter [[B]]). Greek letter: [[Delta (letter)|Δ]] (capital) or δ (small) (Delta).{{Fact|date=September 2007}} The [[Lower case|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. At the end of [[German language|German]] words, ''d'' represents {{IPA|/t/}}. In [[Fijian language|Fijian]] it stands for the [[prenasalized consonant|prenasalized]] stop {{IPA|/nd/}}. 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|/tʰ/}}. Examples of such languages include [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Scottish Gaelic]], [[Navajo language|Navajo]], and the [[Pinyin]] transliteration of [[Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin]]. ==Codes for computing== {{Letter |NATO=Delta |Morse=–·· |Character=D4 |Braille=⠙ }} In [[Unicode]] the [[majuscule|capital]] D is codepoint U+0044 and the [[Lower case|lowercase]] d is U+0064. The [[ASCII]] code for capital D is 68 and for lowercase the d is 100; or in [[Binary numeral system|binary]] 01000100 and 01100100, respectively. The [[EBCDIC]] code for capital D is 196 and for lowercase d is 132. The [[numeric character reference]]s in [[HTML]] and [[XML]] are "<tt>&amp;#68;</tt>" and "<tt>&amp;#100;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively. == References == {{reflist}} {{Refimprove|date=February 2007}} ==See also== {{Commons|D}} *[[Eth (letter)|Eth]] (Ð, ð) *[[D with stroke]] (Đ, đ) *[[Ɗ|Hooked D]] ({{Unicode|Ɗ}}, {{Unicode|ɗ}}) *[[De (Cyrillic)|Д, д - De (Cyrillic)]] {{Latin alphabet}} [[Category:Latin letters]] [[gan:D]] [[af:D]] [[als:D]] [[ar:D]] [[arc:D]] [[ast:D]] [[az:D]] [[bs:D]] [[br:D (lizherenn)]] [[ca:D]] [[cs:D]] [[co:D]] [[cy:D]] [[da:D]] [[de:D]] [[dv:D]] [[et:D]] [[el:D]] [[es:D]] [[eo:D]] [[eu:D]] [[fa:D]] [[fr:D (lettre)]] [[fur:D]] [[gd:D]] [[gl:D]] [[ko:D]] [[hr:D]] [[io:D]] [[ilo:D]] [[ik:D]] [[is:D]] [[it:D]] [[he:D]] [[ka:D]] [[kw:D]] [[sw:D]] [[ht:D]] [[la:D]] [[lv:D]] [[lb:D]] [[lt:D]] [[hu:D]] [[mzn:D]] [[ms:D]] [[nah:D]] [[nl:D (letter)]] [[ja:D]] [[no:D]] [[nn:D]] [[nrm:D]] [[uz:D (harf)]] [[pl:D]] [[pt:D]] [[crh:D]] [[ro:D]] [[qu:D]] [[ru:D (латиница)]] [[se:D]] [[scn:D]] [[simple:D]] [[sk:D]] [[sl:D]] [[sr:D (слово латинице)]] [[fi:D]] [[sv:D]] [[tl:D]] [[th:D]] [[vi:D]] [[tg:D (забони барномасозӣ)]] [[tr:D (harf)]] [[tw:D]] [[uk:D (латиниця)]] [[vo:D]] [[yo:D]] [[zh-yue:D]] [[bat-smg:D]] [[zh:D]]