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| Who's D is it, anyway? | |||
| {{About|the letter of the alphabet}} | |||
| {{Technical reasons|D#|D-sharp|D♯ (disambiguation)}} | |||
| {{Technical reasons|:D|the "very happy face" symbol|Emoticon}} | |||
| {{pp-move-indef|small=yes}} | |||
| {{Latin letter info|d}} | |||
| '''D''' (] ''dee'' {{IPAc-en|'|d|iː}}<ref>"D" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); '']'s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "dee", ''op. cit.''</ref>) is the fourth ] in the ]. | |||
| == History == | |||
| {| class="wikitable" | |||
| |- style="background-color:#EEEEEE; text-align:center;" | |||
| ! Egyptian hieroglyph <br>door | |||
| ! Phoenician <br/>'']h'' | |||
| ! Greek <br/>'']'' | |||
| ! Etruscan <br/>D | |||
| ! Roman <br/>D | |||
| |- style="background-color:white; text-align:center;" | |||
| |<hiero>O31</hiero> | |||
| | ] | |||
| | ] | |||
| | ] | |||
| | ] | |||
| |} | |||
| The Semitic letter ] may have developed from the ] for a fish or a door. There are various ]s that might have insPired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek and Latin, the letteR represented {{IPA|/d/}}; in the ] the letter was superfluous but still retained (see letter ]). The equivalent ] is Delta, ']'.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} | |||
| The ] (lower-case) fOrm of 'd' consisTs of a lOop and a tall ] 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 ] 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 == | |||
| ] at the border between Austria and Germany.]] | |||
| In nearly all languages that use the Latin alphabet and the ] 'd' represents the ] or ] {{IPA|/d/}}, but in the ], it represents the sound {{IPA|/z/}} (or {{IPA|/j/}} in southern dialects). In ] it represents a ] stop {{IPA|/nd/}}.<ref>{{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=] |isbn=0-8248-1898-9 }}</ref> In some languages where ]less ] stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, 'd' represents an unaspirated {{IPA|/t/}}, while 't' represents an aspirated {{IPA|/tʰ/}}. Examples of such languages include ], ], ], ] and the ] transliteration of ]. | |||
| The symbol "D" is used for ] in ]. | |||
| ==Related letters and other similar characters== | |||
| *Đ đ : ] | |||
| *{{unicode|Ɗ ɗ}} : ] | |||
| *Ð ð : ] | |||
| *Δ δ : ] | |||
| *Д д : ] | |||
| *ד : ] | |||
| *∂ : ], <math>\part</math> | |||
| ==Computing codes== | |||
| {{charmap | |||
| | 0044 | 0064 | name1 = Latin Capital Letter D | name2 =   Latin Small Letter D | |||
| | map1 = ] family | map1char1 = C4 | map1char2 = 84 | |||
| | map2 = ] <sup>1<sup/> | map2char1 = 44 | map2char2 = 64 | |||
| }} | |||
| : <sup>1</sup> {{midsize|Also for 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 ] (BSL), the letter 'd' is indicated by signing with the right hand held with the index and thumb extended and slightly curved, and the tip of the thumb and finger held against the extended index of the left hand. | |||
| == References == | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| *{{Commons-inline|D}} | |||
| *{{Wiktionary-inline|D}} | |||
| *{{Wiktionary-inline|d}} | |||
| {{Latin alphabet|D|}} | |||
| ] | |||
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