D

See also: Appendix:Variations of "d"

Translingual

D	U+0044, D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D

← C
[U+0043]

Basic Latin

E →
[U+0045]

Ⅾ	U+216E, Ⅾ ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE HUNDRED

← Ⅽ
[U+216D]

Number Forms

Ⅿ →
[U+216F]

Ｄ	U+FF24, Ｄ FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D

← Ｃ
[U+FF23]

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

Ｅ →
[U+FF25]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

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

Letter

D (lower case d)

The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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.

Alternative forms

d, IↃ, CCCCC, ccccc

Numeral

D (upper case Roman numeral, lower case d)

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

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”)

Symbol

D

(chemistry) Deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.
(computing) Hexadecimal symbol for thirteen.
A standard size of dry cell battery larger than C.
Vehicle-distinguishing sign for Germany.
(biochemistry) IUPAC one-letter abbreviation for aspartic acid.
(mathematics) The differential operator in calculus and analysis.

Gallery

Letter styles
Capital and lowercase versions of D, in normal and italic type
Uppercase D in Fraktur
Lowercase D in Fraktur

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”).

Pronunciation

Letter name: IPA^(key): /diː/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -iː
Phoneme: IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

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D (upper case, lower case d, plural Ds or D's)

The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  
  Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

Number

D (upper case, lower case d)

The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

Noun

D

defense.
(US, politics) Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
D-New York
(automotive) drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
(printing) duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
(euphemistic) dick; penis.
She wants the D!
(electronics) data.
(Unicode) Canonical decomposition
(music) Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.
Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417

Coordinate term: Köchel number

Derived terms

NFD

References

Unicode Consortium, Unicode Standard Annex #15, revision 41 (2014-06-05), § 1.2, table 1: “Normalization Forms”

Adverb

D

down (direction).

Adjective

D

divorced.

Proper noun

D

(with “The”) The City of Detroit.

Interjection

D

(euphemistic) Damn
- 1878, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, "I am the Captain of the Pinafore", H.M.S. Pinafore
  CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D—

Etymology 3

From the shape of the upper case letter "D"

Noun

D (plural Ds)

(snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
(soccer) The penalty arc on a football pitch.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

D (plural Ds)

(education, chiefly Canada, US) 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.

Proper noun

D

(computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.

Afar

Letter

D

The tenth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe D)

The letter D

Azerbaijani

Letter

D upper case (lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Chinese

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): di¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: di¹
  - Yale: dī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: di¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: di¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiː⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) D

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of 啲 (dī)

Suffix

Template:zh-suf

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of 啲 (dī)

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /deː/
Audio (file)

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /do/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/
Audio (file)

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called do and written in the Latin script.

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Used only in loanwords except for the weak grade of t.

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /deː/
Audio (file)

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the German alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "D".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

Posture the dominant hand in the “D” shape.

Letter

the letter D

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdeːl]
Audio (file)

Noun

D (plural D-ek)

s. (south). Abbreviation of dél (“south”).

Declension

The declined forms below are used only in writing. When speaking, the declined forms of the full word should be used, as shown at dél.

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	D	D-ek
accusative	D-et	D-eket
dative	D-nek	D-eknek
instrumental	D-lel	D-ekkel
causal-final	D-ért	D-ekért
translative	D-lé	D-ekké
terminative	D-ig	D-ekig
essive-formal	D-ként	D-ekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	D-ben	D-ekben
superessive	D-en	D-eken
adessive	D-nél	D-eknél
illative	D-be	D-ekbe
sublative	D-re	D-ekre
allative	D-hez	D-ekhez
elative	D-ből	D-ekből
delative	D-ről	D-ekről
ablative	D-től	D-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	D-é	D-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	D-éi	D-ekéi

Possessive forms of D
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	D-em	D-eim
2nd person sing.	D-ed	D-eid
3rd person sing.	D-e	D-ei
1st person plural	D-ünk	D-eink
2nd person plural	D-etek	D-eitek
3rd person plural	D-ük	D-eik

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

D (lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA^(key): /di/
Homophones: di, dì, di'
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

D m or f (invariable, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Italian alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script.

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [d]

(file)

Letter

D

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called dē and written in the Latin script.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA^(key): [di]
(phoneme, syllable-initial) IPA^(key): [d]
(phoneme, syllable-final) IPA^(key): [t̚]

Letter

D

The fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

D m

Abbreviation of dom. (as a title)

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʼ/

Letter

D

The eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /d/

Letter

D (lower case d)

The eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

D

Wikipedia ^sl

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /d/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /deːl/

Letter

D upper case (lower case d)

The seventh letter of the Somali alphabet, called deel and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The seventh letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by KH and followed by R.

Spanish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ze˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
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Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called dê, đê, or dờ and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.