Ḍ
Latin letter D with dot below
Ḍ (minuscule: ḍ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a dot below the letter.
In the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages such as Arabic, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents an "emphatic" consonant [dˤ], and is used for that purpose in the Berber Latin alphabet.
In the transcription of Indic and East Iranian languages, and in the orthography of the O'odham and Sicilian languages, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents a retroflex [ɖ]. This was used in a former transcription of Javanese, but has been replaced by ⟨dh⟩.
In modern discussion of Early Old French (9th-11th centuries), it represents a voiced dental fricative, [ð], a sound that disappeared by the time of late 12th-century Old French as reflected in new spellings. Examples: riḍre "to laugh" (later rire), aiméḍe "loved" (feminine singular past participle, later aimée).
01Encoding
| Preview | Ḍ | ḍ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW | LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 7692 | U+1E0C | 7693 | U+1E0D |
| UTF-8 | 225 184 140 | E1 B8 8C | 225 184 141 | E1 B8 8D |
| Numeric character reference | Ḍ | Ḍ | ḍ | ḍ |
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