U+00FE "þ" Latin Small Letter Thorn Unicode Character

U+00FE "þ" Latin Small Letter Thorn is a letter from the Old English and Icelandic alphabets, representing the voiceless dental fricative sound "th" as in the English word "thin." Historically used in medieval English manuscripts, it gradually fell out of use in English with the advent of printing, often replaced by the digraph "th." In modern times, it remains a standard letter in the Icelandic alphabet and is sometimes employed in stylized or archaic English texts, such as in the word "Ye" as a misinterpretation of "Þe" meaning "the."

General Properties

Code Point	U+00FE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter Thorn
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	þ
HTML Hex Encoding	þ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC3 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x00FE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000000FE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u00fe

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Þ" U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Þ" U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Uppercase Code Point	"Þ" U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Titlecase Code Point	"Þ" U+00DE Latin Capital Letter Thorn
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower