D

See also: Variations of "d"

D - Translingual

Letter

D (lower case d)

The fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Alternative forms

d, IↃ, CCCCC, ccccc

Numeral

D (upper case Roman numeral, lower case d)

(Roman numerals) Five hundred (500).
the five hundredth (500th)

Symbol

(chemistry) Deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.
(computing) Hexadecimal symbol for thirteen.
A standard size of dry cell battery larger than C.
Vehicle-distinguishing sign for Germany.
(biochemistry) IUPAC one-letter abbreviation for aspartic acid.
(mathematics) The differential operator in calculus and analysis.
(linguistics) A wildcard for an alveolar consonant
(finance) Long-term bond credit rating by Moody's Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings, indicating that a bond is in default, and the issuer is (or is about to become) bankrupt.
denier (unit)
(clothing) Bra cup size.

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of D, in normal and italic type
Uppercase D in Fraktur
Lowercase D in Fraktur

D - English

Pronunciation

Letter name: IPA: /diː/
Phoneme: IPA: /d/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d, plural Ds or D's)

The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Number

D (upper case, lower case d)

The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

defense.
(US, politics) Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
- D-New York
(automotive) drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
(printing) duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
(euphemistic) dick; penis.
- She wants the D!
(electronics) data.
(Unicode) Canonical decomposition
(music) Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.
- Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417
- Coordinate term: Köchel number

Derived terms

Adverb

down (direction).

Adjective

divorced.

Proper noun

(with “The”) The City of Detroit.

Interjection

(euphemistic) Damn

Noun

D (plural Ds)

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

Noun

D (plural Ds)

(education, chiefly Canada, US) 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

(computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.

D - Afar

Letter

The tenth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /dɪə/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

D (plural D's, diminutive D'tjie)

D - Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /d(ə)/

Letter

D (D) (upper case D, lower case d)

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

D - Angami

Letter

The twenty-fourth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Azerbaijani

Letter

D upper case (lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Basque

Pronunciation

IPA: /de/, [d̪e̞]

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

D - Chinese

Pronunciation

Mandarin
- (Pinyin): dì (di⁴)
- (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ

Verb

(Internet slang) to DDOS

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
- (Pinyin): dì (di⁴)
- (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): di¹, dok1
Min Nan
- (Hokkien, POJ): ti
- (Teochew, Peng'im): di⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): ti (T1)

Letter

The fourth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
- (Pinyin): dē, dê̄ (de¹, dê1)
- (Zhuyin): ㄉㄜ, ㄉㄝ

Letter

The fourth letter used in Pinyin.

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).

D - Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /deː/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /do/
(phoneme): IPA: /d/
Homophone (letter name): do (“so, therefore”)

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called do and written in the Latin script.

D - Estonian

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

D - Finnish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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

D - German

Pronunciation

IPA: /deː/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the German alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

D - Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈdeːl]

Noun

D (plural D-ek)

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 dél.

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	D	D-ek
accusative	D-et	D-eket
dative	D-nek	D-eknek
instrumental	D-lel	D-ekkel
causal-final	D-ért	D-ekért
translative	D-lé	D-ekké
terminative	D-ig	D-ekig
essive-formal	D-ként	D-ekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	D-ben	D-ekben
superessive	D-en	D-eken
adessive	D-nél	D-eknél
illative	D-be	D-ekbe
sublative	D-re	D-ekre
allative	D-hez	D-ekhez
elative	D-ből	D-ekből
delative	D-ről	D-ekről
ablative	D-től	D-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	D-é	D-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	D-éi	D-ekéi

Possessive forms of D
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	D-em	D-eim
2nd person sing.	D-ed	D-eid
3rd person sing.	D-e	D-ei
1st person plural	D-ünk	D-eink
2nd person plural	D-etek	D-eitek
3rd person plural	D-ük	D-eik

Coordinate terms

(compass points) égtájak;

északnyugat (ÉNy)	észak (É)	északkelet (ÉK)
nyugat (Ny)		kelet (K)
délnyugat (DNy)	dél (D)	délkelet (DK)

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: [ˈd]
(letter name): IPA: [ˈdeː]

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called dé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	D	D-k
accusative	D-t	D-ket
dative	D-nek	D-knek
instrumental	D-vel	D-kkel
causal-final	D-ért	D-kért
translative	D-vé	D-kké
terminative	D-ig	D-kig
essive-formal	D-ként	D-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	D-ben	D-kben
superessive	D-n	D-ken
adessive	D-nél	D-knél
illative	D-be	D-kbe
sublative	D-re	D-kre
allative	D-hez	D-khez
elative	D-ből	D-kből
delative	D-ről	D-kről
ablative	D-től	D-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	D-é	D-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	D-éi	D-kéi

Possessive forms of D
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	D-m	D-im
2nd person sing.	D-d	D-id
3rd person sing.	D-je	D-i
1st person plural	D-nk	D-ink
2nd person plural	D-tek	D-itek
3rd person plural	D-jük	D-ik

Derived terms

D-dúr
D-vitamin

D - Ido

Pronunciation

IPA: /d/

Letter

D (lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Indonesian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /de/
(phoneme): IPA: /d/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Italian

Pronunciation

(phonemic realization) IPA: /d/

Letter

D f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Italian alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script.

D - Latvian

Pronunciation

IPA: [d]

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called dē and written in the Latin script.

D - Malay

Pronunciation

(name of letter) IPA: [di]
(phoneme, syllable-initial) IPA: [d]
(phoneme, syllable-final) IPA: [t̚]

Letter

The fourth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Norwegian Bokmål

Letter

D (lowercase d)

The fourth letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /d/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Polish

Pronunciation

IPA: /dɛ/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

D - Portuguese

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

D m (uncountable)

Abbreviation of dom. (as a title)

D - Romani

Pronunciation

IPA: /d/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /d/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called de or dî and written in the Latin script.

D - Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA: /tʼ/

Letter

The eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /d/

Letter

D (lower case d)

The eighth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

D - Slovene

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /d/, [t]
(letter name): IPA: /də́/, /dèː/, /déː/
Homophone: d

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The seventh letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The fifth letter of the Natisone Valley dialect alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

D m inan

The name of the Latin script letter D / d.

Inflection

Overall more common

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	D
gen. sing.	D-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	D	D-ja	D-ji
accusative	D	D-ja	D-je
genitive	D-ja	D-jev	D-jev
dative	D-ju	D-jema	D-jem
locative	D-ju	D-jih	D-jih
instrumental	D-jem	D-jema	D-ji

More common when with a definite adjective

Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing.	D
gen. sing.	D
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	D	D	D
accusative	D	D	D
genitive	D	D	D
dative	D	D	D
locative	D	D	D
instrumental	D	D	D

D - Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /d/
(letter name): IPA: /deːl/

Letter

D upper case (lower case d)

The seventh letter of the Somali alphabet, called deel and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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

D - Spanish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

Día D

D - Turkish

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called de and written in the Latin script.

D - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA: [ze˧˧], [ʔɗe˧˧], [zəː˨˩]
(Huế) IPA: [jej˧˧], [ʔɗej˧˧], [jəː˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [jej˧˧], [ʔɗej˧˧], [jəː˨˩]
Phonetic: dê, đê, dờ

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The sixth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called dê, đê, or dờ and written in the Latin script.

D - Welsh

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA: /diː/
- (informal) IPA: /də/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called di and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by Ch and followed by Dd.

Mutation

D at the beginning of words mutates to Dd in a soft mutation, to N in a nasal mutation and is unchanged by aspirate mutation, for example with the word Dinbych (“Denbigh”):

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Dinbych	Ddinbych	Ninbych	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

D - Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /d/
(letter name): IPA: /dí/

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The third letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called dí and written in the Latin script.

D - Zulu

Letter

D (upper case, lower case d)

The fourth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.