Home U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic
Glyph for U+0439
Source: Noto Sans

U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I

U+0439 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. It is related to its uppercase variant Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I.

The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I, Glyph for U+0306 Combining Breve. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+0439 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Lower for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Short I (Й й; italics: Й й) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.

Short I represents the palatal approximant /j/ like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in yesterday.

Depending on the romanization system in use and the Slavic language that is under examination, it can be romanized as ⟨y⟩, ⟨j⟩, ⟨i⟩ or ⟨ĭ⟩. For more details, see romanization of Russian, romanization of Ukrainian, romanization of Belarusian and romanization of Bulgarian.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 1081
UTF-8 D0 B9
UTF-16 04 39
UTF-32 00 00 04 39
URL-Quoted %D0%B9
HTML hex reference й
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake й
HTML named entity й
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) AC DB
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) A9
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) D9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A7 DB
Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) CA
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) CA
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) E9
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) E9
LATEX \cyrchar\cyrishrt
Adobe Glyph List afii10075
Adobe Glyph List iishortcyrillic
digraph j=

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
Unicode 1 Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT II
Block Cyrillic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I Glyph for U+0306 Combining Breve
Lowercase ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0419 Cyrillic Capital Letter Short I
Case Folding Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✔
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✔
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✔
Changes When Uppercased ✔
Cased ✔
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✔
ID Start ✔
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check No
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Lower
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✔
XID Start ✔
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✔
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✔
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0439 Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R