Yes. Both ⌃ D and fn ⌫ delete the character to the right of the cursor.
MacOS 12.4, Magic Keyboard (without numpad). No dictation shortcut assigned.
**PS - by going into System Preferences, Keyboard, Dictation and changing the Shortcut from Ctrl-D to something else, I was able to restore the Ctrl-D functionality to “Delete Character/Letter to Right of Cursor” Don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this before!
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Apple didn’t think of it, either.
FWIW …
DELETE = deletes one character left of the cursor
DELETE OPT = deletes an entire word left of the cursor
DELETE FN = deletes one character right of the cursor
DELETE FN OPT = deletes an entire word right of the cursor
DELETE CMD = deletes an entire line of text complete, one line per selection
Only the first one of these works. In addition, if you press the delete key it will delete to the left before you can press another key. so it doesn’t make sense to portray the key combos this way. don’t know where you got this, but it doesn’t work on my system. (MacBook, latest OS, regular keyboard.)
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Perhaps better written as:
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DELETE = deletes one character left of the cursor
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OPT DELETE = deletes an entire word left of the cursor
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FN DELETE = deletes one character right of the cursor
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FN OPT DELETE = deletes an entire word right of the cursor
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CMD DELETE = deletes an entire line of text complete, one line per selection
They all work on my Macs across all the apps I use: Scrivener, TextEdit, VS Code, Mail, etc. No idea why they don’t work on your Macs. These have been standard Mac shortcuts for as long as I can remember.
EDIT:
Here‘s someone mentioning one of the keystrokes above back in 2007:
Press and hold fn+Option, hit Backspace and you delete to the right word by word.
These two don’t work for me. To be clear I’m using the Fn key to the right of Ctrl on my full sized keyboard.
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FN DELETE = deletes one character right of the cursor
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FN OPT DELETE = deletes an entire word right of the cursor
This is on your new Macally keyboard, right? Just trying to understand what’s going on in case this problem comes up again in the future.
Yes a full sized Macally keyboard for Mac.
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I’m late to the game and I’m a Windows guy but I want to show off my keyboard. Logitech G G413 Mechanical Backlit Gaming Keyboard. It is a mechanical keyboard and clicks and clacks like a keyboard should.
Maybe someday I will have something more substantive to say about writing. Tomorrow I start on a new talk scheduled for October! Scrive on!
Just for the record, all of the known standard shortcuts (including all known UNIX/emacs style Ctrl shortcuts) are documented in the user manual, in tables 15.1 and 15.2, under §15.2, Editing Basics. These describe standard behaviours of Apple keyboards though. Once we get into hybrid Mac/PC keyboards and such, we can’t expect everything to be the same. On Apple keyboards lacking a dedicated Del key, Fn-delete (which is really backspace, but they call it delete) is hard-wired to Del. So fn⌥delete is the same as ⌥Del, or delete from the cursor to the end of the current word.
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I really appreciate the contributions of participants here, especially those who collaborated to create a Keyboard Maestro macro. But I learned something interesting.
I downloaded KM and invoked the macro, but was unable to get it to work.I think the problem is that all the key combinations are taken up by other commands. I think there seems to be a basic problem that there are too many conflicting programs using various shortcuts. Is it possible to get Keyboard Maestro, or another service, to override existing shortcuts?
Doesn’t that sound like adding more conflicts and confusion? 
I’d rather spend the time figuring out which programs occupy which shortcuts and why (and then change / remove them if unnecessary).
UPDATE: I was wrong. Keyboard Maestro does override other shortcuts, at least some of them.
No, Keyboard Maestro cannot override existing shortcuts.
Technically it can, but if it refuses to, that would be really nice. I don’t mean that ironically. Some apps just don’t care.
How would I cause KM to do that?
Well, just set it. E.g. try a Scrivener shortcut (preferably something “harmless”). If KM allows it – as in: not actively trying to stop you – you’ll end up with two programs using the same shortcut. You won’t like the outcome, though.
UPDATE: I was wrong. Keyboard Maestro does override other shortcuts, at least some of them.
No, I would not, because it wouldn’t override the existing shortcut. If it did, two programs wouldn’t be using the shortcut.
That’s exactly why it’s a stupid idea to begin with. The two programs can’t use the same shortcut (at the same time), but they will “compete” for it. I ran into this problem multiple times with some utilities (think: window managers) which registered a lot of shortcuts already in use by other programs.
UPDATE: I was wrong. Keyboard Maestro does override other shortcuts, at least some of them.
As I said before, Keyboard Maestro cannot override existing shortcuts … and yes, it’s a bad idea to try it.