short i

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.

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a href="/encyclopedia/Case-(orthography)" title="Case (orthography)">Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
owspan=2\|Unicode	Capital	1049	0419	002031	0000010000011001
\|Small	1081	0439	002071	0000010000111001
owspan=2\|ISO 8859-5	Capital	185	b9	271	0010111001
\|Small	217	d9	331	0011011001
owspan=2\|KOI 8	Capital	234	ea	352	0011101010
\|Small	202	ca	312	0011001010
owspan=2\|Windows 1251	Capital	201	c9	311	0011001001
\|Small	233	e9	351	0011101001

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