Dalet
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Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth
The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door:
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Arabic dāl
The letter is named dāl دَالْ, and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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Glyph form: (Help) |
د | ـد | ـد | د |
The letter represents a /d/ sound.
Phoenician
The Phoenician dālet gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D, and the Cyrillic letter Д.
Aramaic
Hebrew dalet
Orthographic variants | ||||
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Various print fonts | Cursive Hebrew |
Rashi script | ||
Serif | Sans-serif | Monospaced
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ד | ד | ד |
Hebrew spelling: דָּלֶת
The letter is dalet in the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (see
Variations
Dalet can receive a dagesh, being one of the six letters that can receive Dagesh Kal (see Gimel). There are minor variations to this letter's pronunciation, such as
- ד dhalet /d/ (/ð/ among Sephardim; /z/ among some Ashkenazim.) or
- דּ dalet /d/.
In addition, in modern Hebrew, the combination ד׳ (dalet followed by a geresh) is used when transcribing foreign names to denote /ð/.
Significance
In gematria, dalet symbolizes the number four.
The letter dalet, along with the
Dalet as a
In modern Hebrew the frequency of the usage of dalet, out of all the letters, is 2.59%.[1]
Syriac daled/dolath
Daled/Dolath |
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Madnḫaya daled |
Serṭo dolath |
Esṭrangela dalath |
In the
Daled/dolath is always written with a point below it to distinguish it from the letter resh (ܪ), which is identical apart from having a point above. As a numeral, dalad/dolath stands for the number four. With various systems of dots and dashes, it can also stand for 4,000 and 40,000.
Character encodings
Preview | ד | د | ܕ | ࠃ | ℸ | |||||
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Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER DALET | ARABIC LETTER DAL | SYRIAC LETTER DALATH | SAMARITAN LETTER DALAT | DALET SYMBOL | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1491 | U+05D3 | 1583 | U+062F | 1813 | U+0715 | 2051 | U+0803 | 8504 | U+2138 |
UTF-8 | 215 147 | D7 93 | 216 175 | D8 AF | 220 149 | DC 95 | 224 160 131 | E0 A0 83 | 226 132 184 | E2 84 B8 |
Numeric character reference | ד |
ד |
د |
د |
ܕ |
ܕ |
ࠃ |
ࠃ |
ℸ |
ℸ |
Named character reference | ℸ |
Preview | 𐎄 | 𐡃 | 𐤃 | |||
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Unicode name | UGARITIC LETTER DELTA | IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER DALETH | PHOENICIAN LETTER DELT | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 66436 | U+10384 | 67651 | U+10843 | 67843 | U+10903 |
UTF-8 | 240 144 142 132 | F0 90 8E 84 | 240 144 161 131 | F0 90 A1 83 | 240 144 164 131 | F0 90 A4 83 |
UTF-16 | 55296 57220 | D800 DF84 | 55298 56387 | D802 DC43 | 55298 56579 | D802 DD03 |
Numeric character reference | 𐎄 |
𐎄 |
𐡃 |
𐡃 |
𐤃 |
𐤃 |
See also
References
- ^ "Alphabet and Character Frequency: Hebrew (עברית)". Retrieved 2023-02-13.