íur

ður is a sequence of three Latin-script characters: the eth letter (ð) followed by the letters u and r. The eth character, used in Icelandic, Faroese, and historically in Old English and Old Norse, is a distinct letter rather than a digraph. As a standalone sequence, ður does not constitute a defined word in major modern languages; it is best understood as a typographic token that can occur within larger words or as part of transliterations rather than as an independent lexical item.

In orthography and encoding contexts, ður illustrates how non-ASCII characters interact with surrounding letters. The lowercase eth has Unicode code point U+00F0 (uppercase is U+00D0). The letters u and r are U+0075 and U+0072, respectively. In UTF-8, the sequence ð-u-r is encoded as the bytes 0xC3 0xB0 0x75 0x72. This makes ður a common example when discussing character encoding, text processing, and the handling of non-Latin characters in digital text.

Possible linguistic and computational contexts for ður include: its appearance as part of longer words in languages that employ the eth letter, or its use in scholarly editions and transliterations of Old Norse, Old English, or related texts where the original script is rendered in Latin characters. In such cases, the sequence does not carry inherent meaning beyond its role as a written symbol, but it can help illustrate orthographic and encoding considerations.

See also: Eth (letter), Icelandic language, Old English, Old Norse, Unicode.