(Д, д) is a letter of the
Cyrillic Alphabet . It represents a
Voiced Dental Plosive except word-finally and before voiceless consonants, when it represents a voiceless and before any
Palatalizing vowel, when it represents .
It arose from the
Greek letter
Delta ; the major graphic difference with its Greek equivalent lies in the two "feet" below the lower corners of Greek letter delta. Like
El , it has two
Typographical variants: one where its top is square, and one where it is pointed (like delta).
The handwritten form of capital letter De appears like Latin
D as the printed version shown here is not comfortable enough to be written quickly. The handwritten lowercase letter looks a bit like a Latin ''
G '' and it is joined to a following letter by its tail. In cursive type, the lowercase form looks more like the lowercase Latin ''d:
Д, д''.
The following table lists the different methods for
Encoding the character electronically, in both its
Majuscule (capital) and
Minuscule (small) forms.
—The values represent Unicode code points. The binary values would be equivalent to UTF-16 Big Endian .
