U+0069 "i" Latin Small Letter I Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

i

U+0069 "i" Latin Small Letter I is a fundamental character in the Latin alphabet, representing the lowercase version of the ninth letter used extensively in English and many other languages. It is encoded in the Basic Latin Unicode block, which corresponds directly to the ASCII standard, and its numeric code point is 105 in decimal. In typography, the letter i is typically depicted with a single vertical stroke and a dot or tittle above it, a feature that distinguishes it from other letters like the dotless i used in some languages. This character serves critical functions in written text, such as forming common words like "in" and "is," and it appears frequently as a pronoun in English. Additionally, it plays a key role in digital data, representing a standard character in computing and text encoding systems worldwide.

General Properties

Code Point U+0069
Version Added 1.1
Name Latin Small Letter I
Block Basic Latin
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding i
HTML Hex Encoding i
UTF-8 Encoding 0x69
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0069
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000069
C/C++/Java Escape \u0069

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
East Asian Width Narrow
Lowercase Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I
Simple Titlecase Code Point "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I
Uppercase Code Point "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I
Titlecase Code Point "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I
Cased Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
Script Latin
Script Extensions Latin
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Soft Dotted Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Lower