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