ד

See also: ד־‎, ד׳‎, and Appendix:Variations of "d"

ד U+05D3, ד HEBREW LETTER DALET ← ג [U+05D2] Hebrew ה → [U+05D4]

ﬢ U+FB22, ﬢ HEBREW LETTER WIDE DALET ← ﬡ [U+FB21] Alphabetic Presentation Forms ﬣ → [U+FB23]

Hebrew

Letter

ד • (d)

1. Dalet, daleth: the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ג‎ and before ה‎.
2. The numeral 4 in Hebrew numbering.
3. Initialism of דָּרוֹם‎ (daróm, “south”)., equivalent to S.

Usage notes

• The letter ד represents the phoneme /d/. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, this phoneme is pronounced [d] (like the <d> in English dog).
• In the Masoretic Text, the letter ד takes a dagesh (דּ) not only when geminated, but also at the start of a word or after a consonant. In Yemenite Hebrew, it is pronounced [d] in those contexts, and [ð] (like the <th> in English this) in other contexts; it is commonly believed that the same was true in Classical Hebrew.
• In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the sound /ð/ (like the <th> in English that), which occurs in various foreign phrases and proper nouns, is commonly written ד׳‎ (dh).
• The letter ד does not have many "grammatical" uses — it mostly occurs only in the "main" part of a word — but one exception is in hitpa'el verbs (and derived nouns) where the first letter of the root is ז‎ (z); for example, one says הִזְדַּקֵּן‎ (hizdakén, “to grow old”) rather than *הִתְזַקֵּן (hitzaken).

Coordinate terms

• (Hebrew script letters) א‎,‏ ב‎,‏ ג‎,‏ ד,‏ ה‎,‏ ו‎,‏ ז‎,‏ ח‎,‏ ט‎,‏ י‎,‏ כ‎ך‎,‏ ל‎,‏ מ‎ם‎,‏ נ‎ן‎,‏ ס‎,‏ ע‎,‏ פ‎ף‎,‏ צ‎ץ‎,‏ ק‎,‏ ר‎,‏ ש‎,‏ ת‎

Derived terms

• בְּד׳ אַמּוֹת‎ (bedálet amót, “with four limbs”)