De (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

De (Д, д; italics: Д, д) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.

It commonly represents the voiced dental plosive /d/, similar to the English pronunciation of the Latin letter D.

In Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Macedonian it is romanized using the Latin letter D.

History

The Cyrillic letter De was derived from the Greek letter Delta (Δ, δ). The major graphic difference from its Greek equivalent lies in the two "feet" below the lower corners of Cyrillic letter De.

In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was Template:Script (dobro), meaning "good".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, De had a value of 4.

Form

The Cyrillic letter De, like the Cyrillic letter El, has two typographical variants: one where its top is square, and one where it is pointed (like Delta).

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handwritten forms

The handwritten form of capital letter De looks like Latin D as the printed version is not comfortable enough to be written quickly. The handwritten lowercase letter looks a bit like a lowercase Latin ‹g› and it is joined to a following letter by its tail [1]. In italic type, the lowercase form looks more like the lowercase Latin ‹d›: ‹д›.

Usage

The letter De represents the voiced dental plosive /d/, except word-finally and before voiceless consonants it represents a voiceless [t] and before a palatalizing vowel it represents /dʲ/.

Encoding

The following table lists the different methods for encoding the character electronically, in both its majuscule (capital) and minuscule (small) forms.

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
UnicodeTemplate:Footnote	Capital	1044	0414	002024	00000100 00010100
	Small	1076	0434	002064	00000100 00110100
ISO 8859-5	Capital	180	B4	264	10110100
	Small	212	D4	324	11010100
KOI 8	Capital	228	E4	344	11100100
	Small	196	C4	304	11000100
Windows 1251	Capital	196	C4	304	11000100
	Small	228	E4	344	11100100

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1. The values represent Unicode code points. The binary values would be equivalent to UTF-16 big endian.

See also

• D, d (Latin)
• Л, л - El (Cyrillic)
• Δ, δ - Delta (Greek)