| Yi | |
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| Ї ї | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ji] |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Sisters | Ï ï |
| Other | |
| Associated numbers | 10 (Cyrillic numerals) |
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Yi orJi (Ї ї; italics:Ї ї) is a letter of theCyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letteriota withtwo dots.
It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letterІ/і, which saw change from two dots to one in the 18th century, possibly inspired by similar Latin letter i. Later two variants of the letter separated to become distinct letters in the Ukrainian alphabet.
It is used in theUkrainian alphabet, thePannonian Rusyn alphabet, and thePrešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia, where it represents theiotated vowel sound/ji/, like the pronunciation of⟨yea⟩ in "yeast". As the historical variant of the Cyrillic Іі, it represented either /i/ (asi inpizza) or /j/ (asy inyen).
In variousromanization systems ofUkrainian,ї is represented by Latin lettersi oryi (word-initially),[1][2]yi,[3]ji, or even simplyï.[4]
It was formerly also used in theSerbian Cyrillic alphabet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound/j/; in this capacity, it was introduced byDositej Obradović but was eventually replaced with the modern letterј byVuk Stefanović Karadžić.[5][6]
In Ukrainian, the letter was introduced as part of theZhelekhivkaorthography, inYevhen Zhelekhivsky [uk]'s Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–86).
| Preview | Ї | ї | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1031 | U+0407 | 1111 | U+0457 |
| UTF-8 | 208 135 | D0 87 | 209 151 | D1 97 |
| Numeric character reference | Ї | Ї | ї | ї |
| Named character reference | Ї | ї | ||
| KOI8-U | 183 | B7 | 167 | A7 |
| Code page 855 | 141 | 8D | 140 | 8C |
| Code page 866 | 244 | F4 | 245 | F5 |
| Windows-1251 | 175 | AF | 191 | BF |
| ISO-8859-5 | 167 | A7 | 247 | F7 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 186 | BA | 187 | BB |
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