U00F0

U+00F0, commonly written as LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH (ð), is a character in the Unicode standard. It belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block and is the lowercase form of the letter used in several Nordic and Germanic languages. Its uppercase counterpart is U+00D0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (Ð).

In modern orthographies, ð represents a voiced dental fricative, typically pronounced as the 'th' sound in the English word "this." It is used today mainly in Icelandic and Faroese, where it is considered a distinct letter rather than just a variation of 'd' or 'th'. The letter appears in several historic and transliteration contexts for Old Norse and Old English, where its pronunciation and representation varied over time.

Technically, U+00F0 can be encoded in common text encodings. In UTF-8, it is represented by the two-byte sequence 0xC3 0xB0. In UTF-16, it is encoded as 0x00F0 (and in UTF-32 as 0x000000F0). In HTML, the character can be written as ð or numerically as ð.

Support and usage vary by font and keyboard layout. Modern Icelandic and Faroese fonts generally include ð, and many input methods allow direct entry of the character. While not part of the standard ASCII repertoire, U+00F0 is widely supported in contemporary digital text and specialized linguistic and regional keyboards.