І

Іі

І (lower case і, IPA pronunciation i ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet and is used in the Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Kazakh alphabets. It has a numerical value of 10. ​​

In older Russian and in Cyrillic alphabets derived from it, such as B. the Kildinsamischen of 1878, there was both the И , which is derived from the Greek Eta , and the І, which is derived from the Greek Iota . Although both letters were pronounced almost the same way back then, both were retained because they corresponded to different numerical values ​​in the Cyrillic number system.

When the Russian spelling was reformed in 1918 , it was decided to remove the superfluous І from the alphabet and only use the И. In the reform of the Belarusian spelling, however, the И was removed from the alphabet and the І was retained. Both letters are pronounced differently in Ukrainian, so both letters can be found in the Ukrainian alphabet.

A distinction must be made between the palochka , which looks exactly like the capital letter I and is used in various Caucasian languages with the Cyrillic alphabet.

Character encoding

default		Uppercase І	Minuscule і
Unicode	Codepoint	U + 0406	U + 0456
	Surname	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
UTF-8		D0 86	D1 96
XML / XHTML	decimal	І	і
	hexadecimal	І	і

Individual evidence

1. ↑ British and Foreign Bible Society (ed.): Евангеліе отъ Матѳея (на русско-лопарскомъ языкъ) . Helsinki 1878 (Translator: Arvid Genetz).