Yi (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter Yi
Phonetic usage:	[ji]
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Yi (Ї ї; italics: Ї ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with diaeresis.

It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter Іі, which saw change from two dots to one in 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 the Ukrainian alphabet, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, and the Prešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia, where it represents the iotated vowel sound /ji/, like the pronunciation of ⟨yea⟩ in "yeast". As the historical variant of the Cyrillic Іі it represented either /i/ (as i in pizza) or /j/ (as y in yen).

In various romanization systems, ї is represented by Roman ji, yi, i, or even ï, but the most common is yi.

It was formerly also used in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound /j/; in this capacity, it was introduced by Dositej Obradović but eventually replaced with the modern letter ј by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.[1][2]

In Ukrainian, the letter was introduced as part of the Zhelekhivka orthography, in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–6).

Related letters and other similar characters

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	Ї		ї
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	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	&YIcy;		&yicy;
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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References

Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.

External links

The dictionary definition of Ї at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of ї at Wiktionary
Ager, Simon. "Ruthenian (Rusyn/Русин)". Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages. Retrieved 11 Apr 2012.
Ager, Simon. "Ukrainian (Українська)". Omniglot: the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages. Retrieved 11 Apr 2012.

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[Maretić-1] Maretić, Tomislav. Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika. 1899.

[2] Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović. Pismenica serbskoga iezika, po govoru prostoga narod’a, 1814.