D-cedilla (majuscule: Ḑ, minuscule: ḑ) is a letter of the

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, consisting of the letter D with a

cedilla A cedilla ( ; from Spanish language, Spanish ', "small ''ceda''", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French , ), is a hook or tail () added under certain letters (as a diacritic, diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modif ...

under it. The letter stands for the

voiced palatal plosive The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a barred dotless that was initially created by turning the type for a ...

in the Livonian alphabet. Before a 1904

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, the letter was also used in

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for the

voiced alveolar fricative The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether a sibilant or non-sibilant fricative is being described. * The symbol for the alveolar sibilant ...

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-derived words where Latin had used ⟨ d⟩ — the reform replaced this with a simple ⟨ z⟩; ''see Obsolete letters of the Romanian alphabet''. Depending on certain

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s, the cedilla traditionally looks like a comma below in Livonian use. In other use, like

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romanizations, the cedilla is like a regular cedilla. D-cedilla is listed as an

allograph In graphemics and typography, the term allograph is used of a glyph that is a design variant of a letter or other grapheme, such as a letter, a number, an ideograph, a punctuation mark or other typographic symbol. In graphemics, an obvious exa ...

of D-comma (D̦d̦) in

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Computer encoding

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