U+A767 "ꝧ" Latin Small Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꝧ
U+A767 "ꝧ" Latin Small Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender is a medieval scribal abbreviation used in Old English and Old Norse manuscripts, representing a modified form of the letter thorn (Þ, þ). The descender stroke likely indicates a contraction or a specific phonetic value, such as the sound "th" in a reduced or abbreviated context, often appearing in words like "þꝧ" for "þæt" or similar shorthand. This character is classified under the Latin Extended-D block and is primarily of interest to paleographers and digital typographers working with historical texts, as it helps preserve the precise orthography of early written sources.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A767 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender |
| Block | Latin Extended-D |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꝧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꝧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x9D 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA767 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A767 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua767 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ꝧ" U+A766 Latin Capital Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝧ" U+A766 Latin Capital Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ꝧ" U+A766 Latin Capital Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ꝧ" U+A766 Latin Capital Letter Thorn with Stroke Through Descender |
| 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 |