Ꝥ (

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for ang, þæt (Modern English " that"), as well as non, þor-, the / in , , , and . In Old English texts, the stroke tended to be more slanted, while in Old Norse texts it was straight. In Middle English times, the ascender of the ''þ'' was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which caused the thorn with stroke abbreviation ( ) to be replaced with a thorn with a small ''t'' above the letter ( ). Unicode encodes Ꝥ as , and ꝥ at . A thorn with a stroke on the ''descender'' also exists, used historically as an abbreviation for the word "through". The codepoints are , and .

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an article about the proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
Unicode Character 'Latin capital letter thorn with stroke' (U+A764)

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