Й
The Й ( lowercase й ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet and part of the Russian and other alphabets. His pronunciation is / j / . It is a Cyrillic И with a breve .
history
In the old Cyrillic script, diacritical marks were very common above the letters, including accent marks and also the breve to identify letters that could have a vowel or consonant function. The letter “и” could denote the vowel / i / or the consonant / j / (similar to <i> in Latin), but for the latter one often puts a breve symbol over the letter: “й”. So it is e.g. B. also described in Meletij Smotryzkyjs grammar from 1619, who called this diacritical mark "слитная" (slitnaja - "connector") (Bl. 17v-18r).
During the alphabet reform of Peter I around 1700, all diacritical marks were abolished and with them the special line in metal type above the letter line in which the diacritics were set. In 1735, however, the Russian Academy of Sciences reintroduced "й" as a separate, fully assembled letter. This new letter was then (based on the Latin model) "и с краткой" (is krátkoi - "i with breve"). At the end of the 19th century, at the suggestion of Jakob Grot , the letter was renamed "и краткое" (i krátkoje - "short i").
The "й" has been used in the written language since its introduction in 1735, but it was not until 1934 that it was included in the Russian alphabet as the eleventh and independent letter in the "Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" ("Толковый словарь русского языка"), which was published under the editorship of Dmitri Ushakov .
Graphic tactics
In most languages, the letter й is almost never in front of the letters а and у because there are the letters я and ю for them.
Character encoding
| default | Uppercase Й | Minuscule й | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 0419 | U + 0439 |
| Surname | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I | |
| UTF-8 | D0 99 | D0 B9 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
Й
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й
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| hexadecimal |
Й
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й
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Individual proof
- ↑ See Helmut Keipert, I contractum redivivum: On the reintroduction of the I kratkoe in Russian letterpress. In: Journal for Slavic Studies. 44.3 (1999), pp. 251-267.