й Cyrillic Small Letter Short I
U+0439
й
ℹ️ About
The Cyrillic Small Letter Short I (й) is a crucial phonetic component in Slavic languages, representing a semivowel /j/. Technically, it is a combination of the Cyrillic ‘I’ (U+0438) and a Breve (U+0306). It was officially added to Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and is essential for languages like Russian, where it distinguishes words like ‘мой’ (my) from ‘мои’ (mine).
⚠️ Note: Do not confuse with и (U+0438) or the Latin letter y.
⚡ Codes
HTML
й
CSS
\0439
Python
\u0439
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