D

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
Basic Latin	U+0044

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Letter 1.2.1.1 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Numeral 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Symbol 1.5 See also 2 English 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Pronunciation 2.1.2 Letter 2.1.3 See also 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Abbreviation 2.3 Etymology 3 2.3.1 Noun 2.4 Etymology 4 2.4.1 Noun 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.3 See also 5 Esperanto 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 5.3 See also 6 Hungarian 6.1 Abbreviation 6.2 See also 7 Italian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Romanian 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Slovene 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 10 Spanish 10.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Italian) IPA: /di/, SAMPA: /di/

[edit] Etymology 1

From Etruscan 𐌃 (D), from Greek Δ (D), “‘Delta’”), from Phoenician 𐤃 (D), “‘dalet’”).

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D upper case (lower case d)

1. The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

[edit] See also

• (Latin script):  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
• (Variations of letter D):  Ďď  Ḋḋ  Ḑḑ  Ḍḍ  Ḓḓ  Ḏḏ  Đđ  D̦d̦  Ɖɖ  Ɗɗ  Ƌƌ  ᵭ  ᶁ  ᶑ  ȡ  ᴅ  Ｄｄ  ȸ  DZDzdz  DZDzdz  DŽDždž  DŽDždž

[edit] Etymology 2

A simplification of Ð under the graphic influence of the letter D, from a standardization of Ɔ superposed on a ⋌ or ⊢, from the practice of circling each hundredth ⋌ (now Roman numeral V), the tally stick notch mark representing five.

[edit] Numeral

D (upper case Roman numeral, lower case d)

1. (mathematics) cardinal number five hundred (500).

[edit] Etymology 3

• (chemistry, deuterium): abbreviation of deuterium
• (computing, hexadecimal 13): From its position as the thirteenth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}
• (Germany): abbreviation of German word Deutschland (“‘Germany’”)

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D

1. (chemistry) Deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.
2. (computing) Hexadecimal symbol for thirteen.
3. A standard size of dry cell battery larger than C.
4. Vehicle-distinguishing sign for Germany. [Clarification of this definition is requested]
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC one-letter abbreviation for aspartic acid.
6. (mathematics) The differential operator in calculus and analysis.

[edit] See also

Other representations of D:

NATO phonetic: Delta Morse code: -·· Braille: ⠑ ASL Manual: D

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of D, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English upper case letter D from 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d), “‘daeg’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• Letter name: IPA: /diː/, SAMPA: /di:/

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• Rhymes: -iː

• Phoneme: IPA: /d/

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D (upper case, lower case d)

1. Dee, the fourth letter of the English alphabet.

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• Previous letter: C
• Next letter: E

[edit] Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

[edit] Abbreviation

D

1. Defense.
2. (US politics) Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.

   D-New York

3. Deny. [Clarification of this definition is requested]
4. Divorced.
5. Down (direction).
6. Drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
7. (printing) Duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
8. Dutch language.
9. (with “The”) The City of Detroit.

[edit] Etymology 3

From the shape of the upper case letter "D"

[edit] Noun

D (plural Ds)

1. (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.

[edit] Etymology 4

From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.

[edit] Noun

D (plural Ds)

1. a grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C

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[edit] American Sign Language

[edit] Letter

(Stokoe D)

1. The letter D

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /deː/

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D (capital, lowercase d)

1. The fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: C
• Next letter: E

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /do/
• (phoneme): IPA: /d/

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D (upper case, lower case d)

1. The fifth letter of the Esperanto alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: Ĉ
• Next letter: E

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Abbreviation

D

1. S (south)

[edit] See also

• észak (É), dél, kelet (K), nyugat (Ny)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /di/, SAMPA: /di/

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia ^it

D m. and f. inv.

1. The fourth letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /de/

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D (capital, lowercase d)

1. The sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /d/. Preceded by C and followed by E.

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[edit] Slovene

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[edit] Letter

D (capital, lowercase d)

1. The 5th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by Č and followed by E.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

1. The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet.