U+0438 "и" Cyrillic Small Letter I Unicode Character

U+0438 "и" Cyrillic Small Letter I is a lowercase letter from the Cyrillic script, representing the vowel sound /i/ in languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian. It is derived from the Greek letter eta (Η, η) and corresponds to the Latin "i" in transliteration. In printed and handwritten form, it closely resembles a mirrored Latin "u" or a slanted "N", and it serves as one of the most common characters in the Cyrillic alphabet, appearing in frequent words like "и" meaning "and" in Russian.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0438
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter I
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Ii
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	и
HTML Hex Encoding	и
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0438
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000438
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0438

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	Ambiguous
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"И" U+0418 Cyrillic Capital Letter I
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"И" U+0418 Cyrillic Capital Letter I
Uppercase Code Point	"И" U+0418 Cyrillic Capital Letter I
Titlecase Code Point	"И" U+0418 Cyrillic Capital Letter I
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
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	Lower