Komi De is a letter of the Molodtsov alphabet

Molodtsov alphabet

In the 1920s, the Komi language was written with the Molodtsov alphabet, derived from the Cyrillic alphabet.The letters particular to the Molodtsov alphabet are:Ԁ Ԃ Ԅ Ԇ Ԉ Ԋ Ԍ Ԏ...

, a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. It was used only in the writing of the Komi language

Komi language

The Komi language is a Finno-Permic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi is one of the two members of the Permic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric branch...

 in the 1920s and in the Mordvin language. The lowercase form resembles the lowercase of the Latin letter D

D

D is the fourth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History :The Semitic letter Dâlet may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek, and Latin, the letter represented ; in the...

 (d d) and its uppercase form resembles an upside-down capital Latin letter P

P

P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Usage:In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words...

 or a reversed soft sign

Soft sign

The soft sign , also known as yer, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short front vowel. As with its companion, the back yer, the vowel phoneme it designated was later partly dropped and partly merged with other vowels...

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Komi De represents the voiced dental plosive

Voiced dental plosive

The voiced dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is...

 /d/, like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in "din". This sound is represented by the Cyrillic letter De

De (Cyrillic)

De is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.De commonly represents the voiced dental plosive , like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in admit.De is romanized using the Latin letter D.-History:...

 (Д д) in other Cyrillic alphabets.

Computing codes

character	Ԁ		ԁ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KOMI DE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOMI DE
character encoding	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...	1280	0500	1281	0501
UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	212 128	D4 80	212 129	D4 81
Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode...	Ԁ	Ԁ	ԁ	ԁ