Short I (Й, й) is a letter in the
Cyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script writing system isan alphabet developed in the First Bulgarian Empire, and used in the Slavic national languages of Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian, and in the non-Slavic languages of Moldovan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Tuvan, and...
. It is made of the Cyrillic
letter ИI or Y is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets, representing typically , or...
(which resembles a reversed
LatinThe Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, and was initially developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.During the...
capital <
NN is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en.- Usage :N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with
is , which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages,...
>), with a
breveA breve is a diacritical mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. It looks similar to the caron , but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded...
.
It is the eleventh letter in the
Russian alphabetThe modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir the Great's conversion to Christianity.-The alphabet:...
, and in
RussianRussian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe...
is called И краткое (
I kratkoye or "short I").
It is the tenth letter in the Bulgarian alphabet and is called И кратко (
I kratko or "short I") in
BulgarianBulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except the Macedonian language, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite...
.
It is the fourteenth letter in the
Ukrainian alphabetThe Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic writing system....
, and in
UkrainianUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet....
is called Йот, (
Yot) or Ий (
Yi,or
Iy, pronounced ).
It is also the eleventh letter of the
Belarusian alphabetThe Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet has existed in its modern form since 1918 and consists of thirty-two letters...
, however the letter И is not used in Belarusian.
In Russian and Bulgarian, short I represents the
semivowelSemivowels, also known as glides or non-syllabic vowels, are vowels that form diphthongs with full syllabic vowels. That is, they are vowel-like sounds that do not form the nucleus of a syllable or mora; they are not the most prominent part of the syllable...
as in English to
y.
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Short I (Й, й) is a letter in the
Cyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script writing system isan alphabet developed in the First Bulgarian Empire, and used in the Slavic national languages of Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Serbian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian, and in the non-Slavic languages of Moldovan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Tuvan, and...
. It is made of the Cyrillic
letter ИI or Y is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets, representing typically , or...
(which resembles a reversed
LatinThe Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, and was initially developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.During the...
capital <
NN is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en.- Usage :N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with
is , which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages,...
>), with a
breveA breve is a diacritical mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. It looks similar to the caron , but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded...
.
It is the eleventh letter in the
Russian alphabetThe modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir the Great's conversion to Christianity.-The alphabet:...
, and in
RussianRussian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe...
is called И краткое (
I kratkoye or "short I").
It is the tenth letter in the Bulgarian alphabet and is called И кратко (
I kratko or "short I") in
BulgarianBulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except the Macedonian language, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite...
.
It is the fourteenth letter in the
Ukrainian alphabetThe Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic writing system....
, and in
UkrainianUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet....
is called Йот, (
Yot) or Ий (
Yi,or
Iy, pronounced ).
It is also the eleventh letter of the
Belarusian alphabetThe Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet has existed in its modern form since 1918 and consists of thirty-two letters...
, however the letter И is not used in Belarusian.
In Russian and Bulgarian, short I represents the
semivowelSemivowels, also known as glides or non-syllabic vowels, are vowels that form diphthongs with full syllabic vowels. That is, they are vowel-like sounds that do not form the nucleus of a syllable or mora; they are not the most prominent part of the syllable...
as in English to
y. In Russian it appears predominantly in the form of diphthongs like in широкий
('shirokiy','wide'), in край
('kray', 'end', 'kraiKrai or kray is a term used to refer to nine of Russia's 83 federal subjects. The term is often translated as territory, province, country or region....
'), in долей
('doley','portion'), in горой
('goron','mountain'), and in буйство ('buystvo','violence'). It is
transliteratedTransliteration is the practice of converting a text from one writing system into another in a systematic way.-Definitions:From an information-theoretical point of view, transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another, word by word, or ideally letter by letter...
as
(used amongst European languagesThe languages of the European Union are languages used by people within the member states of the European Union. They include the twenty-three official languages of the European Union along with a range of others...
), (the most common), or (the least common, likely to be ĭI is the ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its English name is spelled i; the plural is ies, though this is rare.-History:...
), depending on which romanizationIn linguistics, romanization or latinization, alternately spelt as latinisation or romanisation , is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system...
system is used. See Transliteration of Russian into English and Romanization of UkrainianThe romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....
. It is used in other positions only in foreign words, such as Йopк (York) or even fellow Slavic words like Йoвoвич (Yovovich).
Active use of <Й> (or, rather, the breve over <И>) began around the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, the differentiation between <И> and <Й> has become obligatory in the Russian variant of Church Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the alphabet reforms of Peter I, all diacritic marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after his death in 1735, the distinction between <И> and <Й> was restored. <Й> was not officially considered a separate letter of the alphabet until the 1930s.
In Serbo-Croatian and MacedonianMacedonian is the official language of Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language and to a certain extent with Serbian and Croatian...
, the letter ЈJe is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional Cyrillic accented и in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church from the Orthodox clergy.-Phonetic...
is used to represent the same sound. Latin-based Slavonic writing systems such as Polish, Czech and the Latin version of Serbian and Croatian also use the letter JĴ or ĵ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....
(not the letter YThe letter Y is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled wye or occasionally wy, plural wyes.-History:...
, as in English or French) for that purpose.
Code positions
| Character encoding A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in...
| Case | Decimal The decimal numeral system has ten as its base. It is the most widely used numeral base.- Decimal notation :...
| HexadecimalIn mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen.Its primary use is as a...
| Octal The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three...
| BinaryThe binary numeral system, or base-2 number system represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual base-2 system is a positional notation with a radix of 2...
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UnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
|
Capital |
1049 |
0419 |
002031 |
0000010000011001 |
| Small |
1081 |
0439 |
002071 |
0000010000111001 |
| ISO 8859-5 |
Capital |
185 |
b9 |
271 |
0010111001 |
| Small |
217 |
d9 |
331 |
0011011001 |
| KOI 8 |
Capital |
234 |
ea |
352 |
0011101010 |
| Small |
202 |
ca |
312 |
0011001010 |
| Windows 1251 |
Capital |
201 |
c9 |
311 |
0011001001 |
| Small |
233 |
e9 |
351 |
0011101001 |
See also
- И, и - I (Cyrillic)
I or Y is a letter of almost all ancient and modern Cyrillic alphabets, representing typically , or...
- Ј, ј - Je (Cyrillic)
Je is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional Cyrillic accented и in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church from the Orthodox clergy.-Phonetic...
- Ў
Short U is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. The letter is called non-syllabic u or short u in Belarusian, because while resembling the vowel у it does not form syllables...