U+045D "ѝ" Cyrillic Small Letter I with Grave Unicode Character

U+045D "ѝ" Cyrillic Small Letter I with Grave is a variant of the Cyrillic letter I (и) that includes a grave accent diacritic. In standard usage, this character is not a distinct letter of the alphabet but rather a typographic combination used primarily in the Bulgarian and Macedonian languages to mark stress on the vowel "и" when it falls on a syllable that requires emphasis, thereby aiding in pronunciation and disambiguation. It is encoded separately in Unicode to ensure proper representation in digital text, allowing for correct rendering and processing of stressed syllables in these languages without relying on general combining diacritics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+045D
Version Added	3.0
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter I with Grave
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"и" U+0438 Cyrillic Small Letter I "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ѝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ѝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD1 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x045D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000045D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u045d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"Ѝ" U+040D Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Grave
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ѝ" U+040D Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Grave
Uppercase Code Point	"Ѝ" U+040D Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Grave
Titlecase Code Point	"Ѝ" U+040D Cyrillic Capital Letter I with Grave
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