Dalet

← Gimel Dalet He →
Phoenician
Hebrew	ד
Aramaic
Syriac	ܕ
Arabic	د
Phonemic representation	d, ð
Position in alphabet	4
Numerical value	4
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek	Δ
Latin	D
Cyrillic	Д

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Syriac dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).

The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: