D-pad
FLAT, USUALLY THUMB-OPERATED DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON MOST MODERN VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS AND REMOTE CONTROLLERS
Control pad; D-Pad; Directional pad; Digital Pad; Dpad; D pad; D-pads; Digital pad
A D-pad (short for directional pad or digital pad; officially referred to by Nintendo as a +Control Pad) is a flat, usually thumb-operated, often digital, four-way directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones. Like early video game joysticks, the vast majority of D-pads are digital; in other words, only the directions provided on the D-pad buttons can be used, with no intermediate values.