Da, Ta, or T’a (majuscule: Դ; minuscule: դ; Armenian: դա) is the fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar plosive (/d/) in Eastern Armenian and the aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive (/tʰ/) in Western Armenian. It is typically romanized with the letter D.[1] It was part of the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE. In the Armenian numeral system, it has a value of 4.[2]

The capital form of this letter, crossed with two horizontal lines, forms the Armenian dram sign.

Character codes

Character information
Preview Դ դ
Unicode name ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER DA ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER DA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1332 U+0534 1380 U+0564
UTF-8 212 180 D4 B4 213 164 D5 A4
Numeric character reference Դ Դ դ դ
Various historic fonts

References

  • Դ on Wiktionary
  • դ on Wiktionary
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