U+00CD "Í" Latin Capital Letter I with Acute Unicode Character
U+00CD "Í" Latin Capital Letter I with Acute is a standard typographic symbol used in various languages, including Spanish, Icelandic, and Irish, where it represents a stressed or otherwise phonetically distinct "I" sound marked by an acute accent. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, with a UTF-8 hexadecimal representation of C3 8D, and its HTML entity is `Í`. The character is derived from the Latin alphabet and is commonly found in words such as "ícono" in Spanish or "bíó" in Icelandic, serving to indicate word stress or differentiate meaning. As a precomposed form, it consolidates the base letter and diacritic into a single code point, ensuring consistent display across digital systems and fonts that support Latin Extended characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00CD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter I with Acute |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter I Acute |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Í |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Í |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC3 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00cd |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| Case Folding | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "í" U+00ED Latin Small Letter I with Acute |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |