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