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Thorn with stroke

Ꝥ (minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for (Modern English "that"), 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, 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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