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A Latin capital letter D with a stroke through its vertical bar (Đ) is the uppercase form of several different letters:
- D with strokeD with strokeĐ , formed from D with the addition of a bar or stroke through the letter. This is the same modification that was used to create eth , but eth is based on an insular variant of d while đ is based on its usual upright shape...
(Đ, đ), used in Vietnamese, some South Slavic (e.g. Croatian, Serbian), MoroAyoreo languageAyoreo is a Zamucoan language spoken in both Paraguay and Bolivia. It is also known as Morotoco , Moro, Ayoweo, Ayoré, and Pyeta Yovai. However, the name "Ayoreo" is more common in Bolivia, and "Morotoco" in Paraguay...
and Sami languages - EthEthEth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
(Ð, ð), used in Icelandic, Faroese, and Old English. Roughly equivalent to the Tau Gallicum used in Gaulish - African DAfrican DAfrican D is a Latin letter representing the voiced retroflex plosive . Its lower-case form is also used to represent this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is a part of the African reference alphabet, designed in 1978 to unify the spelling of numerous African languages...
, representing a voiced retroflex plosiveVoiced retroflex plosiveThe voiced retroflex plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d`. The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter d with a rightward-pointing tail protruding...
sound - D–E ligatureLigature (typography)In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms", where the specific shape of a letter depends on...
, which appears in old Spanish inscriptions; a similar symbol representing the word de, "of"; the character is not represented in Unicode