I (Cyrillic)

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Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox I or Y (И, и) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing Template:IPA in Russian and Template:IPA in Ukrainian. It looks like a backwards version of the Latin alphabet's capital N, and is derived from the Greek letter eta (Η, η, pronounced Template:IPA in Ancient Greek but Template:IPA in Modern Greek).

In the early Cyrillic alphabet there was little or no distinction between the letters и (izhei) and і (izhe), descended from the Greek letters η (eta) and ι (iota). They both remained in the alphabetical repertoire because they represented different numbers in the Cyrillic numeral system, eight and ten, and are therefore sometimes referred to as octal I and decimal I.

It is the tenth letter of the Russian alphabet, and in Russian is represents Template:IPA, like the i in machine. Although not palatized or iotated like Russian's other palatalizing "soft" vowels (е, ё, ю, and я), in Russian it is considered the soft counterpart to ы, which represents Template:IPA. (In Ukrainian and Belarusian, the sound Template:IPA is represented by the letter і, sometimes called Ukrainian I.)

It is the eleventh letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, and in Ukrainian represents Template:IPA, as in English image.

Belarusian has dispensed entirely with the letter и.

With a breve, it forms the letter й, called I kratkoye ("short I") in Russian or Yot in Ukrainian and represents the Y in English "yet."

It is transliterated from Russian as i, or from Ukrainian as y or i, using different romanization systems. See transliteration of Russian into English and romanization of Ukrainian.

The Cyrillic letters и and я are used in faux Cyrillic typography.

be:И fr:I (cyrillique) it:И (Cirillico) ja:И no:И nn:И pt:I (Cirílico) ru:И (кириллица) sr:И (ћириличко) fi:И zh:И