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D

Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj
Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv
Ww Xx Yy Zz

D d

The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet.

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History

The Semitic letter Dālet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /š/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still maintained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta).

In Cantonese, the sound /d/ means a little bit, from the ancient use of the character 的 (in the phrase "兀的") in Chinese written language. Since 的 is no longer used in this way, Hong Kong residents invented a new character 啲 (which is not supported in many Chinese systems), or simply write D instead.

Alternate representations

Delta represents the letter D in the NATO phonetic alphabet, except in airports, to avoid confusion with Delta Air Lines, in which case it is Dixie.

In international Morse code the letter D is DahDitDit: - · ·

In Braille the letter D is represented as (in Unicode), the dot pattern,

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Computing

In Unicode the capital D is codepoint U+0044 and the lowercase d is U+0064.

The ASCII code for capital D is 68 and for lowercase d is 100; or in binary 01000100 and 01100100, correspondingly.

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.

Meanings for D

See also

Two-letter combinations starting with D:

Letter-digit combinations starting with D:




Last updated: 02-07-2005 21:31:13
Last updated: 03-02-2005 06:08:55