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Glyph for U+0456
Source: Noto Sans

U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I

U+0456 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+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I and its titlecase variant Glyph for U+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I. The character is also known as Old Cyrillic i.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0456 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:

The dotted i (І і; italics: І і), also called decimal i (и десятеричное, after its former numeric value) or soft-dotted i, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/, like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in English "machine". It is used in the orthographies of Belarusian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Carpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian and quite often, but not always, is the equivalent of the Cyrillic letter i (И и) as used in Russian and other languages. However, the letter І (⟨І⟩) was also used in Russian before the Bolshevik reform of 1918.

In Ukrainian, І is the twelfth letter of the alphabet and represents the sound [i] in writing. Ukrainian uses и to represent the sound [ɪ]. In Belarusian, I is the tenth letter of the alphabet. It represents [i]. The two Carpathian Rusyn standard varieties use і, и and ы for three different sounds: /i/, /ɪ/ and /ɨ/, respectively. In Komi, і occurs only after the consonants д, з, л, н, с, and т and does not palatalize them, while и does. In Kazakh and Khakas, і represents /ɘ/, as in "bit".

Just like the Latin letters I/i (and J/j), the dot above the letter appears only in its lowercase form and then only if that letter is not combined with a diacritic above it (notably the diaeresis, used in Ukrainian to note the letter yi of its alphabet, and the macron). Even when the lowercase form is present without any other diacritic, the dot is not always rendered in historic texts (the same historically applied to the Roman letters i and j). Some modern texts and font styles, except for cursive styles, still discard the "soft" dot on the lowercase letter, because the text is readable without it.

Representations

System Representation
1110
UTF-8 D1 96
UTF-16 04 56
UTF-32 00 00 04 56
URL-Quoted %D1%96
HTML hex reference і
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ñ–
HTML named entity і
alias Old Cyrillic i
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) F6
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) A6
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) B3
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) B4
LATEX \cyrchar\cyrii
Adobe Glyph List afii10103
Adobe Glyph List icyrillic
digraph ii

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
Unicode 1 Name CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
Block Cyrillic
General Category Lowercase Letter
Script Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0406 Cyrillic Capital Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Case Folding Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian 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+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian 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
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
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 Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
NFKD Quick Check Yes
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+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
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+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R