D, or d, is the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Its name in
English is dee, plural dees. History The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for
a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic,
Ancient Greek and Latin, the letter represented ; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but
still retained . The equivalent Greek letter is Delta, Δ. The minuscule form of 'd' consists of a loop and a
tall vertical stroke. It developed by gradual variations on the majuscule form. In handwriting, it was
common to start the arc to the left of the vertical stroke, resulting in a serif at the top of the arc. This
serif was extended while the rest of the letter was reduced, resulting in an angled stroke and loop.