D

Etymology 1


From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from an uncertain origin, likely the  hieroglyph.

Letter

 * 1) The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2
A simplification of under the graphic influence of the letter D, from a standardization of  superposed on a ⋀ or ⊢, from the practice of circling each hundredth ⋀ (now Roman numeral V), the tally stick notch mark representing five.

Numeral

 * 1)  Five hundred (500).
 * 2)  the five hundredth (500th)

Etymology 3

 * abbreviation of
 * From its position as the thirteenth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}
 * abbreviation of German word

Symbol

 * 1)  Deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.
 * 2)  Hexadecimal symbol for thirteen.
 * 3) A standard size of dry cell battery larger than C.
 * 4) Vehicle-distinguishing sign for Germany.
 * 5)  IUPAC one-letter abbreviation for aspartic acid.
 * 6)  The differential operator in calculus and analysis.
 * 7)  A wildcard for an alveolar consonant
 * 8)  arithmetically decreasing payments
 * 9) denier
 * 1) denier

Etymology 1
From, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter.

Pronunciation

 * Phoneme:
 * Phoneme:
 * Phoneme:
 * Phoneme:

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.

Noun

 * 1)   especially preceding the constituent location.
 * 2)   the setting of an automatic transmission.
 * 3)   as adopted by the American Library Association.
 * 4)  Canonical
 * 5)   in the.
 * 1)   as adopted by the American Library Association.
 * 2)  Canonical
 * 3)   in the.
 * 1)  Canonical
 * 2)   in the.
 * 1)  Canonical
 * 2)   in the.
 * 1)   in the.

Adverb

 * 1)  (direction).

Proper noun

 * 1)  The City of Detroit.

Interjection

 * 1)  Damn.

Etymology 3
From the shape of the upper case letter "D".

Noun

 * 1)  The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
 * 2)  The penalty arc on a football pitch.

Etymology 4
From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.

Noun

 * 1)   A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A programming language inspired from C++.

Noun

 * 1) D

Letter

 * 1) The 5th letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.
 * 2) The 7th letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Greek-script alphabet.

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic and, in Ripuarian and northernmost Moselle Franconian also from geminated *dd (but not *þþ).

Usage notes

 * In the German-based spelling, d is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between d and t may be based on internal analogy, but more often follows the German cognate.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, d is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open. In the syllable coda, internal analogy prevails.

Verb

 * 1)  to DDOS

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1)  disco

Etymology 4
From.

Verb

 * 1)   to like (a VTuber)

Etymology 5

 * Cantonese dok1
 * Spelling pronunciation in Hong Kong, derived from.

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Pronunciation

 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :
 * Homophone :

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords except for the weak grade of t.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) s. (south)

Declension
The declined forms below are used only in writing. When speaking, the declined forms of the full word should be used, as shown at.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from Latin , from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from an uncertain origin, likely the  hieroglyph.

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Usage notes

 * 1) The seventh letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by KH and followed by R.

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes switched with the letter $⟨⟩$ between vowels, $⟨W⟩$, or $⟨Y⟩$ in a word due to lenition of to  such as  can become . Compare flapping in pronunciation of . The letter does not change if the next consonant is an  (such as  does not become ) or  (such as  does not become ).
 * Some words starting with the letter can also become $⟨⟩$ if the last letter of the preceding word is a vowel, $⟨W⟩$, or $⟨Y⟩$. Examples are /, /, /, and /.
 * On all cases stated above, it is acceptable whether $⟨D⟩$ or $⟨R⟩$ is used. However, the said phenomena do not occur on proper nouns nor recent loan words.
 * In the dialect, the letter  may interchange with the letter on any position in the word even when not followed by a vowel, $⟨w⟩$, or $⟨y⟩$. (ex. / and /). Exceptions are recent loanwords, or if the next consonant after a  is  (such as in ) or  (such as in ).
 * Often switched with the letter $⟨r⟩$ on non-initial positions in early texts which may indicate ancient pronunciation of words.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * D at the beginning of words mutates to in a, to  in a  and is unchanged by , for example with the word :