Ď
{{short description|Latin letter D with caron}}
File:Latin_letter_D_with_caron.svg]]
The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a letter in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote {{IPA|/ɟ/}}, the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew.{{cite web |last1=Skarnitzl |first1=Radek |last2=Bartošová |first2=Petra |title=Výzkum lingvální artikulace pomocí elektropalatografie na příkladu českých palatálních exploziv |url=https://fonetika.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/104/2015/10/SkaBar13-EPG.pdf |access-date=25 October 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Hanulíková |first1=Adriana |last2=Hamann |first2=Silke |title=Illustrations of the IPA - Slovak|url=https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/silke/articles/Hanulikova&Hamann_2010.pdf |access-date=2 January 2022 |publisher=International Phonetic Association}}
It was also used in Polabian. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.
Ď is also used to represent uppercase eth in the coat of arms of Shetland although the standard uppercase form of eth is Ð.
Encoding
{{charmap
|010E|name1=LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON
|010F|name2=LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
}}
In Unicode, the letters are encoded at {{unichar|010E|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON|html=}} and {{unichar|010F|LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON|html=}}.{{cite web |title=Latin Extended-A|url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_0100.html |publisher=Unicode Consortium}}
As recorded by the Unicode Consortium, the form of the minuscule letter preferred for typesetting is "d with a curved apostrophe" (rather than "d with a caron diacritic").