diff --git a/components/prism-d.js b/components/prism-d.js
index f381482509..981b2f3d2c 100644
--- a/components/prism-d.js
+++ b/components/prism-d.js
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ Prism.languages.d = Prism.languages.extend('clike', {
 				// eslint-disable-next-line regexp/strict
 				/\bq"(.)[\s\S]*?\2"/.source,
 
-				// Characters
-				// 'a', '\\', '\n', '\xFF', '\377', '\uFFFF', '\U0010FFFF', '\quot'
-				/'(?:\\(?:\W|\w+)|[^\\])'/.source,
-
 				// eslint-disable-next-line regexp/strict
 				/(["`])(?:\\[\s\S]|(?!\3)[^\\])*\3[cwd]?/.source
 			].join('|'), 'm'),
@@ -69,6 +65,12 @@ Prism.languages.d = Prism.languages.extend('clike', {
 	'operator': /\|[|=]?|&[&=]?|\+[+=]?|-[-=]?|\.?\.\.|=[>=]?|!(?:i[ns]\b|<>?=?|>=?|=)?|\bi[ns]\b|(?:<[<>]?|>>?>?|\^\^|[*\/%^~])=?/
 });
 
+Prism.languages.insertBefore('d', 'string', {
+	// Characters
+	// 'a', '\\', '\n', '\xFF', '\377', '\uFFFF', '\U0010FFFF', '\quot'
+	'char': /'(?:\\(?:\W|\w+)|[^\\])'/
+});
+
 Prism.languages.insertBefore('d', 'keyword', {
 	'property': /\B@\w*/
 });
diff --git a/components/prism-d.min.js b/components/prism-d.min.js
index f2ddeb1751..d84ab1dfea 100644
--- a/components/prism-d.min.js
+++ b/components/prism-d.min.js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Prism.languages.d=Prism.languages.extend("clike",{comment:[{pattern:/^\s*#!.+/,greedy:!0},{pattern:RegExp("(^|[^\\\\])(?:"+["/\\+(?:/\\+(?:[^+]|\\+(?!/))*\\+/|(?!/\\+)[^])*?\\+/","//.*","/\\*[^]*?\\*/"].join("|")+")"),lookbehind:!0,greedy:!0}],string:[{pattern:RegExp(['\\b[rx]"(?:\\\\[^]|[^\\\\"])*"[cwd]?','\\bq"(?:\\[[^]*?\\]|\\([^]*?\\)|<[^]*?>|\\{[^]*?\\})"','\\bq"((?!\\d)\\w+)$[^]*?^\\1"','\\bq"(.)[^]*?\\2"',"'(?:\\\\(?:\\W|\\w+)|[^\\\\])'",'(["`])(?:\\\\[^]|(?!\\3)[^\\\\])*\\3[cwd]?'].join("|"),"m"),greedy:!0},{pattern:/\bq\{(?:\{[^{}]*\}|[^{}])*\}/,greedy:!0,alias:"token-string"}],keyword:/\$|\b(?:__(?:(?:DATE|EOF|FILE|FUNCTION|LINE|MODULE|PRETTY_FUNCTION|TIMESTAMP|TIME|VENDOR|VERSION)__|gshared|parameters|traits|vector)|abstract|alias|align|asm|assert|auto|body|bool|break|byte|case|cast|catch|cdouble|cent|cfloat|char|class|const|continue|creal|dchar|debug|default|delegate|delete|deprecated|do|double|dstring|else|enum|export|extern|false|final|finally|float|for|foreach|foreach_reverse|function|goto|idouble|if|ifloat|immutable|import|inout|int|interface|invariant|ireal|lazy|long|macro|mixin|module|new|nothrow|null|out|override|package|pragma|private|protected|ptrdiff_t|public|pure|real|ref|return|scope|shared|short|size_t|static|string|struct|super|switch|synchronized|template|this|throw|true|try|typedef|typeid|typeof|ubyte|ucent|uint|ulong|union|unittest|ushort|version|void|volatile|wchar|while|with|wstring)\b/,number:[/\b0x\.?[a-f\d_]+(?:(?!\.\.)\.[a-f\d_]*)?(?:p[+-]?[a-f\d_]+)?[ulfi]{0,4}/i,{pattern:/((?:\.\.)?)(?:\b0b\.?|\b|\.)\d[\d_]*(?:(?!\.\.)\.[\d_]*)?(?:e[+-]?\d[\d_]*)?[ulfi]{0,4}/i,lookbehind:!0}],operator:/\|[|=]?|&[&=]?|\+[+=]?|-[-=]?|\.?\.\.|=[>=]?|!(?:i[ns]\b|<>?=?|>=?|=)?|\bi[ns]\b|(?:<[<>]?|>>?>?|\^\^|[*\/%^~])=?/}),Prism.languages.insertBefore("d","keyword",{property:/\B@\w*/}),Prism.languages.insertBefore("d","function",{register:{pattern:/\b(?:[ABCD][LHX]|E?(?:BP|DI|SI|SP)|[BS]PL|[ECSDGF]S|CR[0234]|[DS]IL|DR[012367]|E[ABCD]X|X?MM[0-7]|R(?:1[0-5]|[89])[BWD]?|R[ABCD]X|R[BS]P|R[DS]I|TR[3-7]|XMM(?:1[0-5]|[89])|YMM(?:1[0-5]|\d))\b|\bST(?:\([0-7]\)|\b)/,alias:"variable"}});
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+Prism.languages.d=Prism.languages.extend("clike",{comment:[{pattern:/^\s*#!.+/,greedy:!0},{pattern:RegExp("(^|[^\\\\])(?:"+["/\\+(?:/\\+(?:[^+]|\\+(?!/))*\\+/|(?!/\\+)[^])*?\\+/","//.*","/\\*[^]*?\\*/"].join("|")+")"),lookbehind:!0,greedy:!0}],string:[{pattern:RegExp(['\\b[rx]"(?:\\\\[^]|[^\\\\"])*"[cwd]?','\\bq"(?:\\[[^]*?\\]|\\([^]*?\\)|<[^]*?>|\\{[^]*?\\})"','\\bq"((?!\\d)\\w+)$[^]*?^\\1"','\\bq"(.)[^]*?\\2"','(["`])(?:\\\\[^]|(?!\\3)[^\\\\])*\\3[cwd]?'].join("|"),"m"),greedy:!0},{pattern:/\bq\{(?:\{[^{}]*\}|[^{}])*\}/,greedy:!0,alias:"token-string"}],keyword:/\$|\b(?:__(?:(?:DATE|EOF|FILE|FUNCTION|LINE|MODULE|PRETTY_FUNCTION|TIMESTAMP|TIME|VENDOR|VERSION)__|gshared|parameters|traits|vector)|abstract|alias|align|asm|assert|auto|body|bool|break|byte|case|cast|catch|cdouble|cent|cfloat|char|class|const|continue|creal|dchar|debug|default|delegate|delete|deprecated|do|double|dstring|else|enum|export|extern|false|final|finally|float|for|foreach|foreach_reverse|function|goto|idouble|if|ifloat|immutable|import|inout|int|interface|invariant|ireal|lazy|long|macro|mixin|module|new|nothrow|null|out|override|package|pragma|private|protected|ptrdiff_t|public|pure|real|ref|return|scope|shared|short|size_t|static|string|struct|super|switch|synchronized|template|this|throw|true|try|typedef|typeid|typeof|ubyte|ucent|uint|ulong|union|unittest|ushort|version|void|volatile|wchar|while|with|wstring)\b/,number:[/\b0x\.?[a-f\d_]+(?:(?!\.\.)\.[a-f\d_]*)?(?:p[+-]?[a-f\d_]+)?[ulfi]{0,4}/i,{pattern:/((?:\.\.)?)(?:\b0b\.?|\b|\.)\d[\d_]*(?:(?!\.\.)\.[\d_]*)?(?:e[+-]?\d[\d_]*)?[ulfi]{0,4}/i,lookbehind:!0}],operator:/\|[|=]?|&[&=]?|\+[+=]?|-[-=]?|\.?\.\.|=[>=]?|!(?:i[ns]\b|<>?=?|>=?|=)?|\bi[ns]\b|(?:<[<>]?|>>?>?|\^\^|[*\/%^~])=?/}),Prism.languages.insertBefore("d","string",{char:/'(?:\\(?:\W|\w+)|[^\\])'/}),Prism.languages.insertBefore("d","keyword",{property:/\B@\w*/}),Prism.languages.insertBefore("d","function",{register:{pattern:/\b(?:[ABCD][LHX]|E?(?:BP|DI|SI|SP)|[BS]PL|[ECSDGF]S|CR[0234]|[DS]IL|DR[012367]|E[ABCD]X|X?MM[0-7]|R(?:1[0-5]|[89])[BWD]?|R[ABCD]X|R[BS]P|R[DS]I|TR[3-7]|XMM(?:1[0-5]|[89])|YMM(?:1[0-5]|\d))\b|\bST(?:\([0-7]\)|\b)/,alias:"variable"}});
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/languages/d/char_feature.test b/tests/languages/d/char_feature.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d62d47523
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/languages/d/char_feature.test
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+'a'
+'\''
+'\\'
+'\n'
+'\xFF'
+'\377'
+'\uFFFF'
+'\U0010FFFF'
+'\quot'
+
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+[
+	["char", "'a'"],
+	["char", "'\\''"],
+	["char", "'\\\\'"],
+	["char", "'\\n'"],
+	["char", "'\\xFF'"],
+	["char", "'\\377'"],
+	["char", "'\\uFFFF'"],
+	["char", "'\\U0010FFFF'"],
+	["char", "'\\quot'"]
+]
diff --git a/tests/languages/d/string_feature.test b/tests/languages/d/string_feature.test
index ad01114554..5eddabb335 100644
--- a/tests/languages/d/string_feature.test
+++ b/tests/languages/d/string_feature.test
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ bar/"
 q"|fo"o
 bar|"
 
-'a' '\'' '\\' '\n' '\xFF' '\377' '\uFFFF' '\U0010FFFF' '\quot'
-
 ""
 "foo"c "bar"w "baz"d
 "fo\"o
@@ -50,20 +48,8 @@ q{ q{bar} }
 	["string", "q\"/fo\"o\r\nbar/\""],
 	["string", "q\"|fo\"o\r\nbar|\""],
 
-	["string", "'a'"],
-	["string", "'\\''"],
-	["string", "'\\\\'"],
-	["string", "'\\n'"],
-	["string", "'\\xFF'"],
-	["string", "'\\377'"],
-	["string", "'\\uFFFF'"],
-	["string", "'\\U0010FFFF'"],
-	["string", "'\\quot'"],
-
 	["string", "\"\""],
-	["string", "\"foo\"c"],
-	["string", "\"bar\"w"],
-	["string", "\"baz\"d"],
+	["string", "\"foo\"c"], ["string", "\"bar\"w"], ["string", "\"baz\"d"],
 	["string", "\"fo\\\"o\r\nbar\""],
 	["string", "`foo`"],