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The graphemeĎ (minuscule: ď) is a Latin letter used in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote /ɟ/, the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British Englishd in dew.[1][2] It was also used in Polabian and Belanda Bor language of South Sudan. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) 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.
In Unicode, the letters are encoded at U+010EĎLATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON (Ď) and U+010FďLATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON (ď).[3]
As recorded by the Unicode Consortium, the form of the minuscule letter preferred for typesetting is "d with a curved apostrophe" (rather than "d with a caron diacritic").[3]