U+0457 "ї" Cyrillic Small Letter Yi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0457 "ї" Cyrillic Small Letter Yi is a distinct glyph used primarily in the Ukrainian and Rusyn alphabets to represent the sound /ji/ or the vowel /i/ after a consonant, and it consists of the Cyrillic letter "і" with a diaeresis (two dots) placed above it. This character is considered a separate letter, not merely a diacritic variant, and it appears in the Cyrillic block of Unicode as the lowercase counterpart to U+0407 "Ї" Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi. It plays a crucial role in Ukrainian orthography, where it distinguishes meaning between words like "їсти" (to eat) and "істи" (to exist), and it is commonly found in words such as "Україна" (Ukraine) and "сміється" (laughs).
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Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0457
Name
Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ї
HTML Hex Encoding
ї
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD1 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0457
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000457
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0457
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Simple Uppercase Code Point
Simple Titlecase Code Point
Uppercase Code Point
Titlecase Code Point
Script Extensions
Cyrillic