U+00D0 "Ð" Latin Capital Letter Eth Unicode Character

U+00D0 "Ð" Latin Capital Letter Eth is a letter used primarily in Old English, Icelandic, and Faroese alphabets, where it represents the voiced dental fricative sound similar to the "th" in the English word "the". Its lowercase counterpart is "ð", and the character originated from the medieval insular script, serving as a distinct letter in these languages rather than a simple typographic variation. In modern computing, it is included in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, ensuring consistent representation across digital systems for languages that require this specific phonetic distinction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+00D0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Eth
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ð
HTML Hex Encoding	Ð
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC3 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00D0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000D0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00d0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Lowercase Code Point	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Simple Case Folding	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Case Folding	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ð" U+00F0 Latin Small Letter Eth
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper