Ď

The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a letter in the Czech and Slovak alphabets. It is formed from Latin D with the addition of háček and is placed right after regular D in the alphabet. It is used to denote /ɟ/, the voiced palatal plosive. It was also used in Polabian.

Ď is also used to represent uppercase ð in the Coat of Arms of Shetland; however, the typical form is Ð.

Encoding

Character Ď ď
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
Encodings decimal hex decimal 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

In Unicode, the letters are encoded at U+010E Ď LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON (HTML Ď)[1] and U+010F ď LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON (HTML ď).[2]

See also

References

  1. "Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON' (U+010E)". FileFormat.Info. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
  2. "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON' (U+010F)". FileFormat.Info. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
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