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A barred D for a different sound.
Also known as: Barred D, Vietnamese barred dee
The Vietnamese letter distinguishing a voiced dental stop from the sound the plain d represents.
Writes the voiced dental stop, distinct from the plain d which in Vietnamese represents a different sound entirely.
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The plain d in Vietnamese is not a d sound, so the barred letter is the one that sounds as an English reader expects and the unbarred one is the surprise — the reverse of the usual assumption about a modified letter.
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Frequently lost when Vietnamese text is stripped of diacritics, turning two distinct letters into one and producing genuine ambiguity rather than merely poor typography.
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A capital or lowercase D with a horizontal bar struck through its upright stem.