Short I (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter Short I | |||||||
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Ꙕ | Ю̂ | Ꙗ | |||||
Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
Ѷ | Ꙟ |
Short I or Yot/Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called i kratkoye, Russian: и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1] It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.
The short I represents the
Depending on the romanization system in use and the Slavic language that is under examination, it can be romanized as ⟨y⟩, ⟨j⟩, ⟨i⟩ or ⟨ĭ⟩. For more details, see romanization of Russian, romanization of Ukrainian, romanization of Belarusian and romanization of Bulgarian.
History
Active use of ⟨Й⟩ (or, rather, the breve over ⟨И⟩) began around the 15th and 16th centuries. Since the middle of the 17th century, the differentiation between ⟨И⟩ and ⟨Й⟩ is obligatory in the Russian variant of Church Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the
Because ⟨Й⟩ was considered to be a vowel and not a consonant, it was not required to take a hard sign when it came at the end of a word in pre-reform orthography.
Usage
Language | position in alphabet |
name |
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Belarusian | 11th | і нескладовае (i nieskladovaje, or "non-syllabic I") |
Bulgarian | 10th | и кратко (i kratko or "short I") |
Russian | 11th | и краткое (i kratkoye or "short I") |
Ukrainian | 14th | йот /jɔt/, й /ɪj/ |
Kazakh | 13th | қысқа й /qysqa ɪ/ (qysqa i or "short I") |
In Russian, it appears predominantly in diphthongs like /ij/ in широкий (shirokiy 'wide'), /aj/ in край (kray 'end', 'krai'), /ej/ in долей (doley 'portion'), /oj/ in горой (goroy 'mountain'), and /uj/ in буйство (buystvo 'rage').[3] It is used in other positions only in foreign words, such as Йopк (York, not with ⟨Ё⟩), including fellow Slavic words like Йовович (Yovovich).
In Kazakh, the letter is used to represent a short ɪ sound (e.g. берейік (tr. (Let us) give)). The letter, much like the other 11 Cyrillic letters, does not have another Latin version and merges with Ии (İi).
In
Related letters and other similar characters
- И и : Cyrillic letter I
- Ы ы : Cyrillic letter Yery
- Η η: Greek letter Eta
- H h : Latin letter H
- І і : Cyrillic letter І
- I i : Latin letter I
- Ĭ ĭ : Latin letter Ĭ
- J j : Latin letter J
- Ј ј : Cyrillic letter Je
- Y y : Latin letter Y
- Ў ў : Cyrillic letter Short U
- ̆ Combining breve U+0306
Note that breve in Й may be quite different from ordinary breve, the former having a thinner central part and thicker ends (the opposite holds for ordinary breve). This is often seen in serif fonts, cf. Й (Cyrillic Short I) and Ŭ (Latin U with breve).
Computing codes
Preview | Й | й | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1049 | U+0419 | 1081 | U+0439 |
UTF-8 | 208 153 | D0 99 | 208 185 | D0 B9 |
Numeric character reference | Й |
Й |
й |
й |
Named character reference | Й | й | ||
KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 234 | EA | 202 | CA |
Code page 855 | 190 | BE | 189 | BD |
Code page 866 | 137 | 89 | 169 | A9 |
Windows-1251 | 201 | C9 | 233 | E9 |
ISO-8859-5 |
185 | B9 | 217 | D9 |
Macintosh Cyrillic |
137 | 89 | 233 | E9 |
References
- ISBN 978-1-108-49257-7.
- OCLC 1287743631.)
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