Short I

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Й, й (Short I) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet.

It is the 11th letter in the Russian alphabet, and in Russian is called и короткая, I kratkoe or "short I". It resembles the letter И with a diacritic added.

It is the 14th letter in the Ukrainian alphabet, and in Ukrainian is called Йот, Yot.

Note that the short I is not found in many South Slavic languages, and is replaced by Ye.

In both languages this is a semivowel pronounced [j] (as in English yellow), which can be used to form diphthongs like the following:

• ai in aisle
• ei in vein
• oi in oil
• ui

It is transliterated as j, y, or i using different romanization systems. See Transliteration of Russian into English and Romanization of Ukrainian.

Cyrillic alphabet
А A	Б Be	В Ve	Г Ge	Ѓ Gje	Ґ Ghe	Д De	Ђ Dje	Е Ye	Є Ukrainian Ye	Ѐ E with grave	Ё Yo	Ж Zhe
Ѕ Dze	З Ze	И I	І Ukrainian I	Ї Yi	Й short I	Ѝ I with grave	Ј Je	К Ka	Ќ Kje	Л El	Љ Lje	М Em
Н En	Њ Nje	О O	П Pe	Р Er	С Es	Т Te	Ћ Tshe	Ѹ Ou	У U	Ў U short	Ф Ef	Х Kha
Ѡ Omega Cyrillic	Ц Tse	Ч Che	Џ Dzhe	Ш Sha	Щ Shcha	Ъ Hard sign (yer)	Ы Yery	Ь Soft sign	Ѣ Yat	Э E reversed	Ю Yu	Я Ya
ɾa (not in Unicode) A iotified	Ѥ E iotified	Ѧ Yus small	Ѫ Yus big	Ѩ Yus small iotified	Ѭ Yus big iotified	Ѯ Ksi Cyrillic	Ѱ Psi Cyrillic	Ѳ Fita	Ѵ Izhitsa	Ѷ Izhitsa with double grave

(Russian letters bolded; old letters italics)

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