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Glyph for U+00FE
Source: Noto Sans

U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn

U+00FE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+00FE behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Fuþark and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs in the Scandinavian rune poems. It is similar in appearance to the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are historically unrelated. The only language in which þ is currently in use is Icelandic.

It is pronounced as either a voiceless dental fricative [θ] or its voiced counterpart [ð]. However, in modern Icelandic, it is pronounced as a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative [θ̠], similar to th as in the English word thick, or a (usually apical) voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative [ð̠], similar to th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ⟨Ð, ð⟩; however, [ð̠] may occur as an allophone of /θ̠/, and written ⟨þ⟩, when it appears in an unstressed pronoun or adverb after a voiced sound.

In typography, the lowercase thorn character is unusual in that it has both an ascender and a descender (other examples are the lowercase Cyrillic ф, and, in some [especially italic] fonts, the Latin letters f and ſ [long s]).

Representations

System Representation
254
UTF-8 C3 BE
UTF-16 00 FE
UTF-32 00 00 00 FE
URL-Quoted %C3%BE
HTML hex reference þ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake þ
HTML named entity &thorn
HTML named entity þ
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A9 AD
Encoding: ISO-8859-10 (hex bytes) FE
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) FE
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) FE
LATEX \th
AGL: Latin-1 thorn
AGL: Latin-2 thorn
AGL: Latin-3 thorn
AGL: Latin-4 thorn
AGL: Latin-5 thorn
Adobe Glyph List thorn
digraph th

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
Unicode 1 Name
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Case Folding Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R