Ḍ (

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

: ḍ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a dot diacritic. In the

transcription Transcription refers to the process of converting sounds (voice, music etc.) into letters or musical notes, or producing a copy of something in another medium, including: Genetics * Transcription (biology), the copying of DNA into RNA, the fir ...

of Afro-Asiatic languages such as Arabic, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents an " emphatic" consonant , and is used for that purpose in the Berber Latin alphabet. In the transcription of

Indic Indic may refer to: * Indic languages (disambiguation) * Various scripts: ** Brahmic scripts, a family of scripts used to write Indian and other Asian languages ** Kharosthi (extinct) * Indian numerals * Indian religions, also known as the Dharmic ...

and

East Iranian The Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages emerging in Middle Iranian times (from c. the 4th century BC). The Avestan language is often classified as early Eastern Iranian. As opposed to the Middle Western Iranian diale ...

languages, and in the orthography of the O'odham and Sicilian languages, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents a retroflex . This was used in a former transcription of Javanese, but has been replaced by ⟨ dh⟩.

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Latin letters with diacritics Phonetic transcription symbols {{phonetics-stub

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