| Cyrillic letter Dotted I |
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| Cyrillic numerals: 10 | ||||||
| Unicode (hex) | ||||||
| majuscule: U+0406 | ||||||
| minuscule: U+0456 | ||||||
| Cyrillic script Slavic letters |
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| А | Б | В | Г | Ґ | Д | Ђ |
| Ѓ | Е | Ѐ | Ё | Є | Ж | З |
| Ѕ | И | Ѝ | 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 |
| Non-Slavic letters | ||||||
| Ӑ | Ӓ | Ә | Ӛ | Ӕ | Ғ | Ҕ |
| Ӻ | Ӷ | Ԁ | Ԃ | Ꚉ | Ӗ | Ӂ |
| Җ | Ӝ | Ԅ | Ҙ | Ӟ | Ԑ | Ӡ |
| Ԇ | Ӣ | Ҋ | Ӥ | Қ | Ӄ | Ҡ |
| Ҟ | Ҝ | Ԟ | Ԛ | Ӆ | Ԓ | Ԡ |
| Ԉ | Ԕ | Ӎ | Ӊ | Ң | Ӈ | Ҥ |
| Ԣ | Ԋ | Ӧ | Ө | Ӫ | Ҩ | Ԥ |
| Ҧ | Ҏ | Ԗ | Ҫ | Ԍ | Ҭ | Ԏ |
| Ӯ | Ӱ | Ӳ | Ү | Ұ | Ҳ | Ӽ |
| Ӿ | Һ | Ԧ | Ҵ | Ҷ | Ӵ | Ӌ |
| Ҹ | Ꚇ | Ҽ | Ҿ | Ӹ | Ҍ | Ӭ |
| Ԙ | Ԝ | Ӏ | ||||
| Archaic letters | ||||||
| Ҁ | Ѻ | Ѹ | Ѡ | Ѿ | Ѣ | Ꙓ |
| Ꙗ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ѫ | Ѩ | Ѭ | Ѯ |
| Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ | Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||
| List of Cyrillic letters | ||||||
| Cyrillic digraphs | ||||||
Dotted I (І і; italics: І і), also called Decimal I, is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/, like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "machine".
It is used in the orthographies of the Belarusian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Rusyn and Ukrainian languages, where it is the equivalent of the Cyrillic letter I (И и) as used in Russian and other languages.
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Dotted I was derived from the Greek letter Iota (Ι ι).
The name of this letter in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was и/ижеи (i/ižei), meaning "and".
In the Cyrillic numeral system, Dotted I had a value of 10.
In the early Cyrillic alphabet there was little or no distinction between the Cyrillic letter I (И и), derived from the Greek letter Eta, and Dotted I. They both remained in the alphabetical repertoire because they represented different numbers in the Cyrillic numeral system, eight and ten respectively, and are therefore sometimes referred to as octal I and decimal I.
| Language | Notes |
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| Belarusian | in current use |
| Bulgarian | in use until 1878 |
| Kazakh | in current use |
| Khakas | in current use |
| Komi | in current use |
| Macedonian | this letter or the letter ⟨Й⟩ were used by Macedonian authors to represent the sound /j/ until the introduction of the letter ⟨Ј⟩ |
| Russian | in use until 1918, when a significant reform of the Russian orthography came into effect |
| Rusyn | in current use |
| Ukrainian | in current use |
The distinction between миръ ("peace") and мiръ ("world") led to the legend that Tolstoy's War and Peace was originally titled "War and (the) World".
| character | І | і | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I |
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| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 1030 | 0406 | 1110 | 0456 |
| UTF-8 | 208 134 | D0 86 | 209 150 | D1 96 |
| Numeric character reference | І | І | і | і |
| KOI8-U | 182 | B6 | 166 | A6 |
| Code page 855 | 139 | 8B | 138 | 8A |
| Windows-1251 | 178 | B2 | 179 | B3 |
| ISO-8859-5 | 166 | A6 | 246 | F6 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 167 | A7 | 180 | B4 |