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'''Short I''' (Й, й) is a letter in the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. It is made of the Cyrillic [[I (Cyrillic)|letter И]] (which resembles a reversed [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] capital [[N]]), with a [[breve]].
It is the eleventh letter in the [[Russian alphabet]], and in [[Russian language|Russian]] is called И краткое (''I kratkoye'' or "short I").
It is the tenth letter in the [[Bulgarian alphabet]] and is called И кратко (''I kratko'' or "short I") in [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]].
It is the fourteenth letter in the [[Ukrainian alphabet]], and in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] is called Йот, (''Yot'') or Ий (''Yi'', pronounced {{IPA|[ɪj]}}).
It is also the eleventh letter of the [[Belarusian alphabet]], however the letter И is not used in Belarusian.
Short I represents the [[semivowel]] {{IPA|/j/}} as in English to'''y''', but appears predominantly in the form of diphthongs like {{IPA|/ij/}} in широк'''ий''' (wide), {{IPA|/aj/}} in кр'''ай''' (end, [[krai]]), {{IPA|/ej/}} in дол'''ей''' (portion), {{IPA|/oj/}} in гор'''ой''' (mountain), and {{IPA|/uj/}} in б'''уй'''ство (violence). It is [[transliteration|transliterated]] as ''j, y,'' or ''i'' depending on which [[romanization]] system is used. See [[Transliteration of Russian into English]] and [[Romanization of Ukrainian]]. It is used in other positions only in foreign words, such as Йopк (York) or even fellow Slavic words like Йoвoвич.
Active use of the letter Й (or, rather, the breve over И) began in the 15-16th centuries. Since the middle of the 17th century, the differentiation between И and Й has become obligatory in the Russian variant of Church-Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the [[civil script|alphabet reforms of Peter I]], all diacritical marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after his death (1735) the distinction between И and Й was restored. Й was not officially considered a separate letter of the alphabet until the 1930s.
In [[Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]] and [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], the [[Je (Cyrillic)|letter Ј]] is used to represent the same sound. Latin-based Slavonic writing systems such as Polish, Czech and the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian also use the [[J|letter J]] for that purpose.
==Code positions==
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! [[Character encoding]] !! [[Case (orthography)|Case]] !! [[Decimal]] !! [[Hexadecimal]] !! [[Octal]] !! [[Binary numeral system|Binary]]
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|rowspan=2|[[Unicode]]||[[Majuscule|Capital]]||1049||0419||002031||0000010000011001
|-
| |[[Lower case|Small]]||1081||0439||002071||0000010000111001
|-
|rowspan=2|[[ISO 8859-5|ISO 8859-5]]||Capital||185||b9||271||0010111001
|-
| |Small||217||d9||331||0011011001
|-
|rowspan=2|[[KOI 8|KOI 8]]||Capital||234||ea||352||0011101010
|-
| |Small||202||ca||312||0011001010
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Windows 1251|Windows 1251]]||Capital||201||c9||311||0011001001
|-
| |Small||233||e9||351||0011101001
|}
Its [[HTML entity|HTML entities]] are: &#1049; or &#x419; for capital and &#1081; or &#x439; for lowercase.
==See also==
*[[I (Cyrillic)|И, и - I (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Je (Cyrillic)|Ј, ј - Je (Cyrillic)]]
*[[Short U|Ў]]
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