Ď
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The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a letter in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote /ɟ/, the voiced palatal plosive. It was also used in Polabian. It is formed from Latin D with the addition of háček, minuscule (ď) has háček modified to apostrophe-like stroke instead of wedge. In the alphabet, Ď is placed right after regular D.
Ď is also used to represent uppercase ð in the Coat of Arms of Shetland; however, the typical form is Ð.
Encoding
| Preview | Ď | ď | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON | LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 270 | U+010E | 271 | U+010F |
| UTF-8 | 196 142 | C4 8E | 196 143 | C4 8F |
| Numeric character reference | Ď |
Ď |
ď |
ď |
| Named character reference | Ď | ď | ||
In Unicode, the letters are encoded at U+010E Ď LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON (Ď)[1] and U+010F ď LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON (ď).[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON' (U+010E)". FileFormat.Info. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
- ^ "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON' (U+010F)". FileFormat.Info. Retrieved 21 October 2010.