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đ U+0111, đ
LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
Đ
Latin Extended-A Ē
The letter đ has variants with the stroke through the stem and the bowl

Brahui

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (uppercase Đ)

  1. A letter of the Brahui Latin alphabet. Its analog in Arabic script is ڈ.

Jarai

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The eighth letter of the Jarai alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The seventh letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (Cyrillic spelling ђ)

  1. The 8th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by and followed by e.

Usage notes

  • Sometimes written as dj.
  • Đ and are quite often confused by non-native speakers.

Sicilian

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Usage notes

  • Less common in modern usage, often written DD

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The ninth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Slovene

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Etymology 1

From Gaj's Latin alphabet đ, from Czech alphabet d, from Latin d, which is a modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, Delta). Pronunciation as IPA(key): /d͡ʑə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy from German d.

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme, standard): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/,
  • (phoneme, dialectal, educated): IPA(key): /d͡ʑ/,
  • (letter name, standard): IPA(key): /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒə́/, /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒèː/, /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒéː/ (mehki dž)
  • (letter name, educated): IPA(key): /d͡ʑə́/, /d͡ʑéː/, /d͡ʑèː/
  • Rhymes: , -eː

Letter

đ (lower case, upper case Đ)

  1. Additional letter in Slovene common mostly in loanwords from Serbo-Croatian.

Noun

đ m inan

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Đ / đ.
Inflection
  • Overall more common
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. đ
gen. sing. đ-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
đ đ-ja đ-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
đ-ja đ-jev đ-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
đ-ju đ-jema đ-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
đ đ-ja đ-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
đ-ju đ-jih đ-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
đ-jem đ-jema đ-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. đ
gen. sing. đ
singular dual plural
nominative đ đ đ
accusative đ đ đ
genitive đ đ đ
dative đ đ đ
locative đ đ đ
instrumental đ đ đ

Etymology 2

Letter d with a stroke to signify partial spirantization, which is sometimes also used in other phonetic transcriptions.

Pronunciation

  • (sound, unofficial): IPA(key):

Symbol

đ

  1. (SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound .
Usage notes

Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately , no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

See also

References

  • Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎ (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30

Spanish

Spanish preposition “de” written as a ligature in capitals
Hand-painted preposition “DE” in the wild

Preposition

đ

  1. Written form of de often found on signs rather than in literature

Usage notes

  • The Đ Unicode character is not the same as the Spanish DE ligature, but the latter is not yet supported by Unicode. In the Spanish ligature the stroke does not cross the vertical of the D.

Further reading

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (lower case, upper case Đ)

  1. The seventh letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called đê or đờ and written in the Latin script.

See also