De with caron (Д̌, д̌; italics: ''Д̌, д̌'') is an additional letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
used in the
Shughni and
Wakhi languages. It is composed of the letter
de with a
caron
A caron or háček ( ), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.
Typographers tend to use the term ''caron'', while linguists prefer ...
.
Usage
De with caron is used in the
Shughni alphabet and the
Wakhi alphabet where it represents the
voiced dental fricative
The voiced dental fricative is a consonant sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the ''th'' sound in ''father''. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is eth, or and was taken from the Old Engl ...
, like the th in they. Sometimes, in Shughni, it is written as the digraph
дъ.
Computing codes
De with caron can be represented with the following
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
characters :
See also
* Ҙ ҙ :
Cyrillic letter Dhe
Notes and references
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Cyrillic letters