U+00DE "Þ" Latin Capital Letter Thorn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Þ
U+00DE "Þ" Latin Capital Letter Thorn is a letter used primarily in the Old English and modern Icelandic alphabets, where it represents the voiced dental fricative sound, like the "th" in the English word "the." It originated from the runic alphabet, specifically the rune named "þurisaz," and was adopted into the Latin script during the medieval period in England. In modern usage, Thorn remains an active part of Icelandic orthography and is occasionally encountered in archaic or stylized English contexts, such as in the pseudo-old-fashioned spelling "Ye" for "the," where the "Y" actually derives from a misrendered printed form of the thorn character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter Thorn |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Þ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Þ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00de |
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 | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| Lowercase Code Point | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| Simple Case Folding | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| Case Folding | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "þ" U+00FE Latin Small Letter Thorn |
| 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 |