What д means
It stands for a sound, not a whole word. Its old name, dobro, meant “good,” but the letter carries no meaning of its own inside words.
Cyrillic developed in Bulgaria around 893 for Church Slavonic, a written language of religious books and services, after the earlier Glagolitic alphabet. Early Cyrillic inscriptions are dated 921, 931, and 943.
Cyrillic later came to write Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other languages; read д within the language and word it belongs to.
Why does д look like g in italics?
Some italic forms resemble Latin g. Russian fonts based on handwriting can give д a g-like shape; Bulgarian and Serbian traditions use different forms. Latin g is still a separate character.
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dLatin Small Letter D
ϯCoptic Small Letter Dei
ԁCyrillic Small Letter Komi De
დGeorgian Letter Don
ძGeorgian Letter Jil
ᲁCyrillic Small Letter Long-Legged De
ⰴGlagolitic Small Letter Dobro
ⷣCombining Cyrillic Letter De
ⷸCombining Cyrillic Letter Djerv
ꙣCyrillic Small Letter Soft De
ꚁCyrillic Small Letter Dwe
𐍓Old Permic Letter Doi
𐍷Combining Old Permic Letter Doi
𞀴Modifier Letter Cyrillic Small De
𞁕Cyrillic Subscript Small Letter De
𞄏Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Letter Da
ͰGreek Capital Letter Heta
ͱGreek Small Letter Heta
ͲGreek Capital Letter Archaic Sampi
ͳGreek Small Letter Archaic Sampi
͵Greek Lower Numeral SignCollections with д
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How to type or find д
- Also called
- dobro
- Search it as
- Cyrillic d · Ukrainian д · Russian д
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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