D with stroke

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For a list of letters that are written in uppercase with the glyph Đ, see D with stroke (disambiguation).
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D with stroke
Đ đ
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Sound values
History
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Transliterations
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Đ (lowercase: đ,

Sámi languages and Vietnamese. Crossed d is a letter in the alphabets of several languages and is used in linguistics as a voiced dental fricative
.

Appearance

In the lowercase, the crossbar is usually drawn through the

bowl, in which case it is known as a barred d.[1] In some African languages' orthographies, such as that of Moro, the barred d is preferred.[2]

In the uppercase, the crossbar normally crosses just the left stem, but in Vietnamese and Moro it may sometimes cross the entire letter.[3]

The DE ligature should not be confused with the Đ.[contradictory] That ligature was used stylistically in pre-19th century Spanish as a contraction for de, as a D with an E superimposed. For example, Universidad DE Guadalajara.

Uses by language

A 9th century Latin manuscript. The abbreviation ſcđo (secundo, "second") occurs on the third line.

African languages

A lowercase đ appeared alongside a lowercase

African reference alphabet
. This revision of the alphabet eliminated uppercase forms, so there was no conflict between ɖ and đ.

Kven

The letter Đ, which is not used in standard Finnish, became used in Kven language texts in the early 2020's, with its users as of March 2025 including the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (e.g. Omavalmhiuđen tarkistuslista),[4] NRK (e.g. Pienemät piđot Hortenissa),[5] and Kainun Institutti (e.g. Sillä heiđän kieli oon muuttunu omhaan laihiin.).[6]

Latin

Đ was used in Medieval Latin to mark abbreviations of words containing the letter d. For example, hđum could stand for heredum "of the heirs". Similar crossbars were added to other letters to form abbreviations.[7]

South Slavic languages

The letter Đ/đ is used to write the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate, [dʑ], similar to the ⟨j⟩ in "jam".[8]

The crossed d was introduced by the Serbian

Gaj’s Latin alphabet.[8] The letter thereafter gradually entered daily use,[8] spreading throughout Serbo-Croatian and then to Macedonian (its Latin transliterations are heavily influenced by Serbo-Croatian from the Yugoslav period)[citation needed
].

The crossed d is today considered a distinct letter, and is placed between

Ѓ ѓ (because only some dialects contain the /dʑ/ sound). When a true đ is not available or desired, it is transcribed
as dj in modern Serbo-Croatian, and as gj in Macedonian. The use of dj in place of đ used to be more common in Serbo-Croatian texts, but it is falling out of practice.

ʒ for velar, from Joseph Wright
's Old High German Primer (1906).

Sámi languages

In the present-day orthographies of

Skolt Sámi, đ represents the fricative [ð]. It is considered a distinct letter and placed between D and E in alphabetical order
.

Vietnamese

A page from the đ section of de Rhodes's Dictioniarum Annamiticum, a 1651 Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary. As with the B with flourish, Đ only appears in lowercase in de Rhodes's works.

Đ is the seventh letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, after D and before E.[9] Traditionally, digraphs and trigraphs like CH and NGH were considered letters as well, making Đ the eighth letter.[10] Đ is a letter in its own right, rather than a ligature or letter-diacritic combination; therefore, đá would come after dù in any alphabetical listing.

Đ represents a

voiced alveolar stop (/ʔd/).[11]
Whereas D is pronounced as some sort of dental or alveolar stop in most Latin alphabets, an unadorned D in Vietnamese represents either /z/ (Hanoian) or /j/ (Saigonese).

The Vietnamese alphabet was formally described for the first time in the 17th-century text Manuductio ad Linguam Tunckinensem, attributed to a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, possibly Francisco de Pina[12] or Filipe Sibin.[13] This passage about the letter Đ was later incorporated into Alexandre de Rhodes' seminal Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum:[14]

Another letter written with the symbol đ is completely different than our own and is pronounced by raising the tip of the tongue to the palate of the mouth, immediately removing it, without in any way touching the teeth, for example đa đa: partridge. And this letter is very commonly used at the beginning of a word.

— Manuductio ad Linguam Tunckinensem[note 1]

On older typewriters, Đ was located where Z would be in the French AZERTY layout.[16] Alternatively, a hyphen can be overstruck onto a D.

On computers without support for a Vietnamese

Telex and VIQR input methods or as D9 in the VNI input method. In the absence of an input method, the TCVN 6064:1995 and Microsoft Windows
Vietnamese keyboard layouts map ZA0-09 (0 on a U.S. keyboard) to đ, or Đ when holding down ⇧ Shift. The Windows layout also maps ZA0-11 (=) to ₫.

Other modes of communication also have dedicated representations of Đ. In Vietnamese Braille, it is ⠙, which corresponds to D in French Braille. In the Vietnamese manual alphabet, Đ is produced by touching the thumb to the index finger. In Morse code, it is rendered – · · – · ·, corresponding to Telex's "DD".[17]

Spanish

The Spanish language uses Đ as a ligature of the word "de" (Spanish for "of").[contradictory] It is rarely typed, but commonly used on signs and in handwritten text.

  • Sign with the letter Đ, in Oaxaca, Mexico
    Sign with the letter Đ, in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Spanish letter Đ, in the font Coruña
    Spanish letter Đ, in the font Coruña
  • Spanish letter Đ used on the Coat of Arms of the State of Chihuahua Mexico.
    Spanish letter Đ used on the Coat of Arms of the State of Chihuahua Mexico.

Other uses

Phonetic transcription

The lowercase đ is used in some phonetic transcription schemes to represent a voiced dental fricative [ð] (English th in this). Eth (ð) is more commonly used for this purpose, but the crossed d has the advantage of being able to be typed on a standard typewriter, by overlaying a hyphen over a d.[18]

Currency symbols

A minuscule form of the letter, đ, is the symbol of the

Hồ Chí Minh.[19] The South Vietnamese đồng
, on the other hand, was symbolized "Đ.", in majuscule. In Unicode, the Vietnamese đồng symbol is properly represented by U+20AB ₫ DONG SIGN, but U+0111 đ LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE is often used instead. In Vietnamese, the đồng sign is written after the amount in superscript, often underlined.

The uppercase form, Ð, is used as the currency symbol for the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

Chemistry

Dispersity is represented by the symbol Đ, and is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture, referring to either molecular mass or degree of polymerization.

Disambiguation

In Japanese handwriting, the letter D may be written as Đ to clearly distinguish it from the letter O or the digit 0. This is similar to writing

Z
or 7 with a bar to distinguish them from 2 and 1 respectively.

Computer encoding

Character information
Preview Đ đ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 272 U+0110 273 U+0111
UTF-8 196 144 C4 90 196 145 C4 91
Numeric character reference Đ Đ đ đ
Named character reference Đ đ
ISO Latin-2, -4, -10 208 D0 240 F0
Latin-6 169 A9 185 B9
PostScript Dcroat, Dslash dcroat, dmacron
LaTeX \DJ \dj

In Unicode, both crossed d and barred d are considered

glyph variants of U+0111.[1]

Unicode has a distinct code point for the visually very similar capital eth, Ð, U+00D0, which can lead to confusion.

As part of

WGL4
, Đ and đ can be expected to display correctly even on older Windows systems.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As printed in Hồn Việt:[14] Alterum đ notatur eo signo, quia est omnino diversù à nostro et pronunciatur attollendo extremum linguae ad palatum oris illamque statim amovendo absque eo, quod ullo modo dentes attingat, ùt đa đa: perdrix. Et haec littera est valde in usu in principio dictionis.

    As paraphrased by de Rhodes:[15] ...estque vitium linguæ, aliud đ notatur eo signo quia est omninò diversum à nostro & pronunciatur attollendo extremum linguæ ad palatum oris, illamque statim amovendo, absque eo quod ullo modo dentes attingat ut đa đa, perdix: & hæc litera est valdè in usu in principio dictionis.

References

  1. ^ a b The Unicode Consortium (2003). The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley Developers Press. p. 432.
  2. ^ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Latin Orthographic Character JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2847R
  3. ISBN 0-87052-924-2
    .
  4. ^ "Näin olet myötä vahvistamassa Norjan valmhiutta" (PDF) (in Kven). Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  5. ^ Tomi Vaara (January 26, 2023). "Kväänin tuuli puhalttaa Etelä-Norjassa" (in Kven). NRK. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  6. ^ "Kainulaiset eli kväänit" (in Kven). Kainun Institutti. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  7. ^ Bischoff, Bernhard (1990). Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. p. 150.
  8. ^ a b c d e Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika, p. 14-15. 1899.
  9. ^ "Bài Tập Tại Nhà #1" [Homework Practice #1] (PDF). Portland, Oregon: Lạc Hồng Vietnamese Language School. August 7, 2009. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 5, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  10. ^ "Tài Liệu Cho Giáo Viên" [Teaching Materials] (PDF) (in Vietnamese). La Vang Vietnamese Language School. October 28, 2011. p. 1. Retrieved November 18, 2013.[permanent dead link‍]
  11. JSTOR 411232
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  12. ISBN 9748304779
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  13. ^ Gesammelte Studien. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I. (in Portuguese). Vol. 21. Jesuit Historical Institute. 1963. p. 12. …e a « Manuductio ad linguam Tunckinensem » do Padre Filipe Sibin SI…
  14. ^ a b Nguyễn Minh Hoàng. "Alexandre de Rhodes có phải là cha đẻ của chữ Quốc ngữ?" [Was Alexandre de Rhodes the father of the Vietnamese alphabet?]. Hồn Việt (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  15. ^ de Rhodes, Alexandre (1651). "Lingue annamiticæ seu tunchinensis brevis declaratio". Dictionarium annamiticum lusitanicum, et latinum (in Latin). Rome: Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. p. 3.
  16. ^ VietNamese Typewriter on Flickr
  17. ^ "Morse Code". Albuquerque, New Mexico: Our Lady of La Vang Eucharistic Youth Society. 2011. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  18. ^ Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. pp. 36–37.
  19. Democratic Republic of Vietnam
    .
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