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ด do dek

ด (do dek) is a mid-class consonant named after เด็ก, “child”. At the start of a syllable it is /d/, written d in RTGS; at the end of one it is /t̚/ (t).

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ดด เด็กdo dek · child
Thai name
ด เด็ก · do dek
Name word
เด็ก, child
Class
Mid class
At the start of a syllable
/d/ · RTGS d
At the end of a syllable
/t̚/ · RTGS t
Unicode
U+0E14 · THAI CHARACTER DO DEK
In HTML
ด or ด
Kedmanee key
F
Pattachote key
U

How it sounds

A true d, voiced as in English. At the end of a syllable it becomes an unreleased t: พูด phut.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ฎ do chada (mid).

Easy to mistake for ต to tao, ค kho khwai and ฎ do chada: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

Mid-class letters are the only ones that take all four tone marks. With no mark, a live syllable has the mid tone and a dead one the low tone; mai ek gives low, mai tho falling, mai tri high and mai chattawa rising.

Syllables with ด and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ดาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelดะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelดากLow
Mai ekด่าLow
Mai thoด้าFalling
Mai triด๊าHigh
Mai chattawaด๋าRising

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ด

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ดีdigood
ดูduto look, to watch
ได้daican; to get
ดอกไม้dokmaiflower
พูดphutto speak

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ด in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.