Unicode Character "þ" (U+00FE)

The character þ (Latin Small Letter Thorn) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00FE. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as þ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Latin Small Letter Thorn
Unicode Codepoint U+00FE
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Þ (U+00DE)

Other Unicode Data

Category Lowercase Letter
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00FE Conversion

HTML (decimal) þ
HTML (hex) þ
HTML (named) þ
URL Escape Code %C3%BE
CSS \0000FE
JavaScript, JSON \u00FE
C, C++, Java \u00FE
Python \u00FE
Rust \u{00FE}
Ruby \u00FE

How to type "þ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 F E. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 F E. Release Alt.

Preview

  • þ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • þ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • þ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC3 0xBE
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00FE
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000FE

References