U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn
U+00FE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. It is related to its uppercase variant
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, Gothic, Old Norse, Old Swedish, and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as 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 þ is still currently in use in 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 |
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Nº | 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 | þ |
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 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN | |
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Latin-1 Supplement | |
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Any | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Lower | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
✘ | |
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Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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