Ď
The grapheme Ď is a Latin letter used in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote, the voiced palatal plosive, a sound similar to British English d in dew.
It was also used in Polabian and Belanda [Bor language|Belanda Bor language of South Sudan]. The majuscule of the letter is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.
Ď is also used to represent uppercase eth in the coat of arms of Shetland although the standard uppercase form of eth is Ð.
Encoding
In Unicode, the letters are encoded at and.As recorded by the Unicode Consortium, the form of the minuscule letter preferred for typesetting is "d with a curved apostrophe".