LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN

Codepoint

U+00FE

Literal Character

þ

Name

LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Latin-1 Supplement

Subblock

Lowercase letters

UTF-8 byte encoding

c3 be

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 fe (big endian)

HTML Entity

þ

LaTeX expression

\th

Perl string literal

\x{FE}

Comments

• Icelandic, Old English, phonetics
• Runic letter borrowed into Latin script
• replaced by "th" in modern English

See Also

U+03F8: greek small letter sho
U+16A6: runic letter thurisaz thurs thorn
U+A7D3: latin small letter double thorn

Wikipedia

Thorn (letter) (en)