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'''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>&#68;</tt>" and "<tt>&#100;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.
== References ==
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==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]]