Ꝥ (minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for Old English "þæt" (Modern English "that"), as well as Old Norse "þor-", the "-þan"/"-ðan" in síðan, "þat", "þæt", and "þess". 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 U+A764 Ꝥ latin capital letter thorn with stroke (HTML: Ꝥ), and ꝥ at U+A765 ꝥ latin small letter thorn with stroke (HTML: ꝥ).
A thorn with a stroke on the descender also exists. The codepoints are U+A766 Ꝧ latin capital letter thorn with stroke through descender (HTML: Ꝧ), and U+A767 ꝧ latin small letter thorn with stroke through descender (HTML: ꝧ).
Famous quotes containing the words thorn and/or stroke:
“So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)