Thread: The letter д

so my name is Gordon

Russian is Гордон correct?

no i have trouble writing the letter д it looks and seems odd, so i was wondering if there is a specific way of writing it OR if it is okay to mix cursive and non because i know that it is like a g in cursive. so would it be improper to write

Горgон

Originally Posted by GordonSmith

Гордон

That's correct

Originally Posted by GordonSmith

....if it is okay to mix cursive and non because i know that it is like a g in cursive. so would it be improper to write
Горgон

"Горgон" in your message looks really, really weird on my screen, with the "g" looking like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/1561171629/ (in other word, it looks as the English g in, say, Times New Roman). That's not acceptable.
But if you write it as the small G is normally written in cursive handwritten style, i.e. similar to q, but with a loop instead of the straight line, it will look just like most of us Russians normally write our д's in handwritten texts.

Originally Posted by GordonSmith

no i have trouble writing the letter д it looks and seems odd, so i was wondering if there is a specific way of writing it

Some Russians do write letter "д" in the way like in the image below.

Not sure where but I think I've seen Greek D's being used
So maybe ГОРΔОН ?

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Some Russians do write letter "д" in the way like in the image below.

Some Russians can write the same letter in a number of ways even in the same note!* It's often a mater of convinience and the choice depends on the nearby letters. But most people stick with 1-2 of their favourite variations for each letter.
* An example of different "d"s in a note: http://caucatalog.narod.ru/summer2007/2 ... _nazal.jpg

For blockletters many people use a "pointed D", it's faster to write:
or it's variations. Like here:


The most common cursive versions of "Д-д" look like that: