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

Unicode Version 18.0

и
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Cyrillic Small Letter I
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Ii

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