Short I

Cyrillic letter Short I
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Cyrillic alphabet
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ
Ѓ Е Ё Є Ж Ѕ З
И І Ї Й Ј К Л
Љ М Н Њ О П Р
С Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф
Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ
Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Archaic letters
Ҁ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѻ Ѣ ІА
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ
Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ        

Й, й (Short I) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И (which resembles reversed Latin capital N), with a breve.

It is the 11th letter in the Russian alphabet, and in Russian is called И краткое (I kratkoye or "short I").

It is the 14th letter in the Ukrainian alphabet, and in Ukrainian is called Йот, (Yot) or Ий (Yi, pronounced [ɪj]).

In both languages this is a semivowel pronounced [j] (as in English yellow), which can be used to form diphthongs like ai in aisle, ei in vein, oi in oil, and ui. It is transliterated as j, y, or i using different romanization systems. See Transliteration of Russian into English and Romanization of Ukrainian.

In Serbian and Macedonian, letter Ј is used to represent the same sound.

Code positions

Character encodingCaseDecimalHexadecimalOctalBinary
UnicodeCapital104904190020310000010000011001
Small 108104390020710000010000111001
ISO 8859-5Capital185b92710010111001
Small 217d93310011011001
KOI 8Capital234ea3520011101010
Small 202ca3120011001010
Windows 1251Capital201c93110011001001
Small 233e93510011101001

Its HTML entities are: Й or Й for capital and й or й for small letter.

See also

See also: Short I, A (Cyrillic), A iotified, Be (Cyrillic), Big Yus, Big Yus iotified, Binary numeral system, Breve, Case (orthography)