- De (Cyrillic)
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Cyrillic letter De 
Cyrillic numerals: 4 Unicode (hex) majuscule: U+0414 minuscule: U+0434 Cyrillic script
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De commonly represents the voiced dental plosive /d/, like the pronunciation of ⟨d⟩ in admit.
De is romanized using the Latin letter D.
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History
The Cyrillic letter De was derived from the Greek letter Delta (Δ δ).
In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was добро (dobro), meaning "good".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, De had a value of 4.
Form
The major graphic difference between De and its modern Greek equivalent lies in the two descenders ("feet") below the lower corners of the Cyrillic letter. The descenders were borrowed from a Byzantine uncial shape of uppercase Delta.
De, like the Cyrillic letter El, has two typographical variants: an older variant where its top is pointed (like Delta), and a modern one (first used in mid-19th c. fonts) where it is square. Nowadays, almost all books and magazines are printed with fonts with the second variant of the letter; the first one is rather stylish and only a few popular text fonts use it (the most known example is "Baltika" designed in 1951-52 by V. G. Chiminova and others).
handwritten forms
In italic (Russian) type, the lowercase form looks more like the lowercase Latin ⟨d⟩: ⟨д⟩. Southern (Serbian, Bulgarian) typography may prefer a variant that looks like a lowercase Latin G ⟨g⟩. Cursive lowercase De has the same two shapes, but with a different distribution: for example, the g-shaped variant is a standard for Russian schools.[1]
The (Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian) cursive form of capital De looks like Latin D as the printed version is not comfortable enough to be written quickly. The Serbian cursive form is closer to the shape of digit 2 (the identical shape is sometimes used for uppercase cursive Latin Q), the form unknown in Russia.
Usage
The letter De represents the voiced dental plosive /d/, except word-finally and before voiceless consonants it represents a voiceless [t] and before a palatalizing vowel it represents /dʲ/.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Δ δ : Greek letter Delta
- D d : Latin letter D
- Л л : Cyrillic letter El
Computing codes
character Д д Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE character encoding decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 1044 0414 1076 0434 UTF-8 208 148 D0 94 208 180 D0 B4 Numeric character reference Д Д д д KOI8-R and KOI8-U 228 E4 196 C4 Code page 855 167 A7 166 A6 Windows-1251 196 C4 228 E4 ISO-8859-5 180 B4 212 D4 Macintosh Cyrillic 132 84 228 E4 References
External links
The Wiktionary definition of Д- The Wiktionary definition of д
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