U+0439 "й" Cyrillic Small Letter Short I Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

й
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+0439 "й" Cyrillic Small Letter Short I is a letter in the Cyrillic script, representing the consonant sound /j/ (like the English "y" in "yes") and is derived from the Cyrillic letter и (I) with a breve diacritic to indicate its shortened or semivowel pronunciation. It is the eleventh letter in the Russian alphabet and is used in various other Cyrillic-based languages, including Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Bulgarian. When capitalized, it becomes the character "Й" (U+0419). The letter is visually distinct from the plain и by the small curved mark above it, known as a breve, which signals its different phonetic value in words.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0439
Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
Unicode 1.0 Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Short Ii

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
й
HTML Hex Encoding
й
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD0 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0439
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000439
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0439