De (Cyrillic)

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Cyrillic letter De
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Ѓ	Д
Ђ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Ќ	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ
О	П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ҕ	Ӗ
Ғ	Ӷ	Ӏ	Ӂ	Җ	Ӝ	Ҙ
Ӟ	Ӡ	Ӣ	Ӥ	Ҋ	Ҡ	Қ
Ҟ	Ҝ	Ӄ	Ӆ	Ӎ	Ң	Ҥ
Ӊ	Ӈ	Ө	Ӫ	Ӧ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ҫ	Ҷ	Ҹ	Ӵ	Ҽ	Ҿ	Ӌ
Ҩ	Ҳ	Һ	Ҭ	Ҵ	Ӳ	Ӯ
Ү	Ұ	Ӱ	Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѹ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѻ	Ѣ	ІА
Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ	Ѱ
Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ

De (Д, д) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents /d/ a voiced dental plosive except word-finally and before voiceless consonants, when it represents a voiceless [t] and before any palatalizing vowel, when it represents /dʲ/.

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.

[edit] Other Uses

It is used in the title of the movie Borat, though incorrectly, where it replaces the A in the word, printed as "Borдt". This is probably because the letter looks "foreign" to most of the English speaking world. This is an instance of the so-called faux Cyrillic.

It also makes up the mouth of the character Giko Cat in Shift-JIS text art, commonly seen on 2ch.

[edit] Encoding

The following table lists the different methods for encoding the character electronically, in both its majuscule (capital) and minuscule (small) forms.

Character encoding	Case	Dec	Hex	Octal	Binary
Unicode[1]	Capital	1044	0414	002024	00000100 00010100
	Small	1076	0434	002064	00000100 00110100
ISO 8859-5	Capital	180	B4	264	10110100
	Small	212	D4	324	11010100
KOI 8	Capital	228	E4	344	11100100
	Small	196	C4	304	11000100
Windows 1251	Capital	196	C4	304	11000100
	Small	228	E4	344	11100100

^[1]—The values represent Unicode code points. The binary values would be equivalent to UTF-16 big endian.