Ḍ (

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: ḍ) is a letter of the

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, formed from D with the addition of a dot diacritic.

In the

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such as

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, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents an " emphatic" consonant , and is used for that purpose in the Berber Latin alphabet. In the transcription of

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and

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languages, and in the

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of the

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 This was used in a former transcription of Javanese, but has been replaced by ⟨ dh⟩.

Encoding

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