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Also known as thorn, þorn
letter of the Latin alphabet
Þ (called "thorn") is a letter that was used in Old English and Icelandic to represent the "th" sound. It's historically important because it shows how different languages have used various symbols to write sounds that modern English now spells with two letters together.
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Key facts
- Writing system
- Adapted from Futhark and Futhorc into Latin script
- Type
- Alphabetic and logographic
- Language of origin
- Old English language , Old Norse language
- Sound values
- [ θ ] , [ ð ] , [ θ̠ ] , [ ð̠ ] , [ tʰ ] , [ z ] , / θ ɔːr n /
- In unicode
- U+00DE, U+00FE
- Development
- ᚦ Þ þ
- Time period
- ~800 to present
- Descendants
- ꝥ
- Sisters
- None
- Transliterations
- Θ , th
- Associated graphs
- th, dh
- Writing direction
- Left-to-right
via Wikipedia infobox
Article · 中文
Þ、þ（þorn 或 thorn）是古英语和冰岛语的一个字母。前者是大寫，後者是小寫。这字母也曾在中世纪斯堪的纳维亚使用，但在现代英语和斯堪的纳维亚各语言均已被 th 所取代。 þ 来自如尼字母 ᚦ (U+16A6) ，在古英语称为 þorn，在斯堪的纳维亚称为 thurs（北欧神话的巨人）。 在冰岛语中，这个字母排在字母表的第 30 位，表示 /θ/ 音。在Windows系統中，按 alt 鍵不放同時按數字鍵0222，就會打出大寫的Þ，而按數字鍵0254，就會打出小寫的þ。
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