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D/d
Also known as d, dee, Delta, ˈdiː, ᴅ, letter D, delta
D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is dee (pronounced ), plural dees.
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D (or d) is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, which is used in English and many other languages around the world. It's a fundamental building block of written communication, appearing in countless words across these languages.
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Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- D
- Grapheme.letter
- D d
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
- Grapheme.language
- Latin language
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0044, U+0064
- Grapheme.alphanumber
- 4
- Grapheme.number
- 4; 500
- Grapheme.fam1
- K1K2O31
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Dalet
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Phoenician Dalet
- Grapheme.fam4
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Use in writing systems
- English
- Other languages
- Other systems
- Other uses
- Related characters
- Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
- Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
- Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations
- Other representations
- Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>
- Other
- References
- External links
D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is dee (pronounced ), plural dees.
==History== {| class="wikitable skin-invert-image" |- style="text-align:center;" ! Egyptian hieroglyph door, fish ! Phoenician daleth ! Western GreekDelta ! Etruscan D ! Latin D |- style="text-align:center;" |O31K1K2 | frameless|35x35px | 50px | 30px | x30px|Latin D |}