U00DE

U+00DE, Latin Capital Letter Thorn, is a Unicode character that encodes the uppercase form of the historical letter thorn (Þ). Thorn was used in Old English and other Germanic languages to denote the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (as in think). In modern English, the sound is usually written with the digraph “th,” and thorn is not part of the standard alphabet.

The thorn letter survives in linguistic scholarship and in some historical editions and fonts. In modern Icelandic and related Latin-script usages, the separate letter Þ/þ is used for that sound, rather than Thorn; as a result U+00DE is primarily encountered in encoding historical texts or as a typographical artifact.

Encoding and representation: In Unicode, U+00DE is the Latin Capital Letter Thorn. In ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252 it occupies code 0xDE. In UTF-8 it encodes to two bytes: 0xC3 0x9E. In HTML, the character can be represented by the named entity Þ or the numeric reference Þ.

See also: U+00FE (Latin Small Letter Thorn), Thorn.