Ď
The
Slovak alphabets used to denote /ɟ/, the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew.[1][2]
It was also used in collating
, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.
Ď is also used to represent uppercase
Ð
.
Encoding
| Preview | Ď | ď | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON | LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | 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 |
| Named character reference | Ď | ď | ||
In Unicode, the letters are encoded at U+010E Ď LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON (Ď) and U+010F ď LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON (ď).[3]
As recorded by the Unicode Consortium, the form of the minuscule letter preferred for typesetting is "d with a curved apostrophe" (rather than "d with a caron diacritic").[3]
See also
References
- ^ Skarnitzl, Radek; Bartošová, Petra. "Výzkum lingvální artikulace pomocí elektropalatografie na příkladu českých palatálních exploziv" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ Hanulíková, Adriana; Hamann, Silke. "Illustrations of the IPA - Slovak" (PDF). International Phonetic Association. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Latin Extended-A". Unicode Consortium.