Yi (Cyrillic)
Encyclopedia
Yi is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
.
It represents the iotated vowel sound /ji/, like the pronunciation of ⟨yi⟩ in "playing", and is used in the Rusyn
and Ukrainian
alphabets.
In various romanization systems
, ї is represented by Latin ï, ji, yi or i, the most common being yi.
The letter was introduced as part of the Zhelekhivka orthography
, in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–6).
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
.
It represents the iotated vowel sound /ji/, like the pronunciation of ⟨yi⟩ in "playing", and is used in the Rusyn
Rusyn language
Rusyn , also known in English as Ruthenian, is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language and it has its own ISO 639-3 code; others treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian...
and Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
alphabets.
In various romanization systems
Romanization of Ukrainian
The 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....
, ї is represented by Latin ï, ji, yi or i, the most common being yi.
The letter was introduced as part of the Zhelekhivka orthography
Ukrainian alphabet
The 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 script....
, in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–6).
Related letters and other similar characters
: Cyrillic letter I with diaeresis- Ï ï : Latin letter I with diaeresisÏ', lowercase ', is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet and in Ukrainian language which is written with the Cyrillic based Ukrainian alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis or I-umlaut....
Computing codes
| character | Ї | ї | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1031 | 0407 | 1111 | 0457 |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
208 135 | D0 87 | 209 151 | D1 97 |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ї | Ї | ї | ї |
| KOI8-U KOI8-U KOI8-U is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover Ukrainian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet. It is based on KOI8-R, which covers Russian and Bulgarian, but replaces eight graphic characters with four Ukrainian letters Ґ, Є, І, and Ї in both upper case and lower case.In Microsoft Windows,... |
183 | B7 | 167 | A7 |
| Code page 855 Code page 855 Code page 855 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. This code page is not used much.-Code page layout:... |
141 | 8D | 140 | 8C |
| Code page 866 Code page 866 Code page 866 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. It is based on the "alternative character set" of GOST 19768-87... |
244 | F4 | 245 | F5 |
| Windows-1251 Windows-1251 Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages... |
175 | AF | 191 | BF |
| ISO-8859-5 | 167 | A7 | 247 | F7 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 186 | BA | 187 | BB |