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U+A7C7, Ꟈ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY

[U+A7C6]
Latin Extended-D
[U+A7C8]
See also: Đ

Gaulish

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Etymology

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Not clear if it descends from Latin D or from Greek Θ (the sound had once been written as a double ΘΘ), but in manuscript form it looks identical to a contemporary d with a stroke.

Letter

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(lower case )

  1. (palaeography) The letter tau gallicum, thought to have represented the sound IPA(key): /t͡s/ and word-initial /st/.

Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • an early form of

Numeral

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  1. (Roman numerals) Five hundred (500).
  2. the five hundredth (500th)