Latin Small Letter Thorn
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0254 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter thorn.
- Alt code
- Alt+0254
- HTML entity
- þ
- Unicode
- U+00FE
About this symbol
Þ, thorn, is an old letter for the th sound, used in Old English and still used in Icelandic. Early English printers, whose type came from the Continent, had no thorn and used a y in its place, which is where the “ye” of “ye olde shoppe” comes from: it was always pronounced “the”.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Icelandic, Old English, phonetics
- Runic letter borrowed into Latin script
- Replaced by “th” in modern English
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