Short I

Cyrillic letter Short I

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 encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1049	0419	002031	0000010000011001
Unicode	Small	1081	0439	002071	0000010000111001
ISO 8859–5	Capital	185	b9	271	0010111001
ISO 8859–5	Small	217	d9	331	0011011001
KOI 8	Capital	234	ea	352	0011101010
KOI 8	Small	202	ca	312	0011001010
Windows 1251	Capital	201	c9	311	0011001001
Windows 1251	Small	233	e9	351	0011101001

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

Short I

Code positions

See also