thumb|D with caron in Doulos SIL The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a Latin letter used in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote , the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew. It was also used in Polabian and Belanda Bor language of South Sudan. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.
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thumb|D with caron in Doulos SIL The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a Latin letter used in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote , the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew. It was also used in Polabian and Belanda Bor language of South Sudan. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.
Ď is also used to represent uppercase eth in the coat of arms of Shetland although the standard uppercase form of eth is Ð.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ď” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.