D with stroke
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Đ (lowercase đ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a stroke. This is the same modification that was used to create eth (ð), but eth is based on the insular shape of d while đ is based on its usual upright shape. Đ is used in the alphabets of several languages, as well as in linguistics as a phonetic symbol.
Appearance
In the lowercase, the stroke is usually drawn through the ascender, but when used as a phonetic symbol it may be preferred to draw it through the bowl.In the uppercase, the stroke is normally drawn through just the left side, but in Vietnamese it may sometimes cross the entire letter.
Usage
Latin
Đ was used in Medieval Latin to mark abbreviations containing the letter d. For example, scđo could stand for secundo "second". Similar strokes were added to other letters to form abbreviations.
Serbian and Croatian
The letter Đ/đ was added to the fledgling Croatian alphabet and the Serbian Latin alphabet by Đuro Daničić in the 19th century, to represent a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate (IPA: /dʑ/).
The letter was since used in the Serbo-Croatian language of Yugoslavia, and this practice is continued in the modern-day standard languages Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.
Đ is considered a distinct letter, and placed between Dž and E in alphabetical order. Its Cyrillic equivalent is Ђ ђ.
Vietnamese
In Vietnamese, đ represents a voiced alveolar implosive (IPA: /ɗ/). It is considered a distinct letter, and placed between D and E in alphabetical order.Sami
In Northern Sami and Skolt Sami, đ represents a voiced dental fricative (English th in this; IPA: /ð/). It is considered a distinct letter, and placed between D and E in alphabetical order.Phonetic transcription
The lowercase đ is used in some phonetic transcription schemes to represent a voiced dental fricative (English th in this; IPA: /ð/).Computer encoding
Đ and đ are encoded in Unicode as U+0110 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE and U+0111 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE. Both the version with the glyph through the ascender and the version with the glyph through the bowl are considered glyph variants of U+01111.As part of WGL4, Đ and đ can be expected to display correctly on most computer systems.
Footnotes
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