Ð
Đđ
Ɖɖ
The glyph Ð ("D with slash ") stands for three different letters of the Latin writing system , each with different minuscules :
Ð, ð
The letter is called Eth and occurs in Old English , Old Norse , Icelandic and Faroese .
In Old English it is the predecessor of today's th , as in mother . It was interchangeable with Þ and was replaced by the letter combination th in Middle English .
In Icelandic it is called eð or edh (spoken: [ɛð] ) and has the same quality as in Old English. It is shown in transcriptions with dh . In today's parlance, if it is not available on the keyboard or in the character set, it is replaced by a simple d .
In Faroese it is called edd and only occurs as a lowercase letter ð (except when a word is consistently written in capitals, such as on maps and company logos), as it can only appear within and at the end of a word. The possible transcription is d . As a rule, it is mute or, depending on the vowel environment, marks a sliding sound [j], [v] or [w], in front of r rarely also the closing sound [g], but never takes on the quality of the English or Icelandic dental sound.
Đ, đ
This letter is used in different ways in the Serbo-Croatian languages , Vietnamese, and North Sami .
Serbo-Croatian
At the end of the 19th century , the Serbian linguist Đuro Daničić, who was then working at the South Slavic Academy in Zagreb , introduced the letter Đ into the Latin alphabet of Croatian and Serbian . It took the place of the letter groups dj or gj in order to be able to reproduce the letter Ђ s of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in Latin script with a single character. Against the criticism of the unusual appearance of the new letter, Daničić pointed out that it also exists in Old Norse. The corresponding lowercase letter looks different from the lowercase eth, however . The South Slavic letter does not designate a voiced dental fricative , but a voiced palatal affricate . If Đ đ cannot be reproduced , it is replaced by Dj dj in South Slavonic .
Vietnamese
In the Latin-based Vietnamese chữ Quốc ngữ ( "national publication"), which by the missionary Alexandre de Rhodes was created (1591-1660) represented ⟨ ¹ ⟩ the voiced alveolar implosive / ɗ / , ⟨ d ⟩ other hand, also referred to as <gi > the voiced alveolar fricative / z / .
North Sami
In the spelling of the North Amish ⟨is ¹ ⟩ for the voiced dental fricative / ð / .
Ɖ, ɖ
This letter occurs in several African languages and is referred to as " African D ".
IPA mark
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) of the lower-case letter ⟨referred ð ⟩ a voiced dental fricative and ⟨ ɖ ⟩ a voiced retroflex plosive .
Presentation on the computer
Windows keyboard
On Windows keyboards, the Ð (eth) is generated with the Alt key pressed with the following number sequences:
- Capital letter Ð: Alt+ 209or Alt+0208
- Small letter ð: Alt+ 208or Alt+0240
Under X11
Under X11, e.g. B. With Linux, there are several different ways to enter the Eth. Without special keymaps being loaded, the following are available under Xorg 7.6:
- Capital letter Ð (U + 00D0): Compose ⇧+ D ⇧+H
- Lower case ð (U + 00F0): Compose D H
- Capital letter Đ (U + 0110): Compose - ⇧+D
- Lowercase letter đ (U + 0111): Compose - D
With the German standard assignment, three characters without Compose are easier to enter:
- Capital letter Ð (U + 00DO): AltGr ⇧ D
- Lower case ð (U + 00F0): AltGr D
- Lowercase letter đ (U + 0111): AltGr F
Unicode
The three variants of the Ð have the following representations in Unicode
- Eth:
- Capital letter Ð: U + 00D0
- Lower case ð: U + 00F0
- D with dash:
- Capital letter Đ: U + 0110
- Lowercase letter đ: U + 0111
- African D:
- Capital letter Ɖ: U + 0189
- Lowercase letter ɖ: U + 0256
HTML
The eth is represented in HTML by the following entities :
- Capital letter Ð: & ETH;
- Lowercase ð: & eth;
Latex
In LaTeX , Eth and D can be represented with a slash in the Cork coding as follows:
- Eth:
- Capital letter Ð: \ DH
- Lower case ð: \ dh
- D with dash:
- Capital letter Đ: \ DJ
- Lowercase letter đ: \ dj
To represent the African D, the fc fonts are required, the representation is then
- African D:
- Capital letter Ɖ: \ M {D}
- Lowercase letter ɖ: \ M {d}
Use of the symbol
Dispersity
The dispersity in macromolecular chemistry is sometimes indicated with the symbol “Д. Example: Ð = 1 applies to some macromolecules of natural origin e.g. B. DNA
Currency symbol
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin is abbreviated with a capital D with a slash. Example: Ð1000.
The Vietnamese Đồng is abbreviated with a lowercase D with a slash, often underlined. Example: 100 ₫
See also
- Þ (Thorn)