Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0222 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter thorn.
- Alt code
- Alt+0222
- HTML entity
- Þ
- Unicode
- U+00DE
About this symbol
Þ is the capital thorn, the old letter for th. It came from a rune and is still part of the Icelandic alphabet, as in the name Þór, Thor. In English it was replaced by th, and its look-alike y gave the “ye” of “ye olde”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Uppercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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