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Also known as Yi
13th letter in the Ukrainian alphabet
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ j i ]
- Development
- Ι ι Ϊ ϊ Ї ї
- Sisters
- Ï ï
- Associated numbers
- 10 ( Cyrillic numerals )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Cyrillic letter Yi - uppercase and lowercase.svg
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- Unicode character
- ї
- Commons category
- Cyrillic Yi
- inception
- 1800-00-00
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Yi or Ji (Ї ї; italics: Ї ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with two dots.
It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter І/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.