Ꝥ (

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: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a

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common in the

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. It was used for (Modern English "

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"), as well as , 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 Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin) is a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . History The letter "W" While the earliest Old English texts ...

, 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 .

References

* * * Andrew West
What's that?
, an article about the proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
Unicode Character 'Latin capital letter thorn with stroke' (U+A764)

Latin-script letters {{typ-stub