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Glyph for U+0457
Source: Noto Sans

U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi

U+0457 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0400 to U+04FF Cyrillic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script. Its uppercase variant is Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi and its titlecase variant is Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I, Glyph for U+0308 Combining Diaeresis. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0457 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Yi (Ї ї; italics: Ї ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with diaeresis.

It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter Іі, which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, possibly inspired by similar Latin letter i. Later two variants of the letter separated to become distinct letters in the Ukrainian alphabet.

It is used in the Ukrainian alphabet, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, and the Prešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia, where it represents the iotated vowel sound /ji/, like the pronunciation of ⟨yea⟩ in "yeast". As the historical variant of the Cyrillic Іі it represented either /i/ (as i in pizza) or /j/ (as y in yen).

In various romanization systems of Ukrainian, ї is represented by Latin letters i or yi (word-initially), yi, ji, or even ï.

It was formerly also used in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound /j/; in this capacity, it was introduced by Dositej Obradović but eventually replaced with the modern letter ј by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.

In Ukrainian, the letter was introduced as part of the Zhelekhivka orthography, in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–86).

Representations

System Representation
1111
UTF-8 D1 97
UTF-16 04 57
UTF-32 00 00 04 57
URL-Quoted %D1%97
HTML hex reference ї
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ñ—
HTML named entity ї
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) F5
Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) F7
Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) A7
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) BF
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) BB
LATEX \cyrchar\cyryi
Adobe Glyph List afii10104
Adobe Glyph List yicyrillic
digraph yi

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Cyrillic
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Cyrillic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0456 Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I Glyph for U+0308 Combining Diaeresis
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0407 Cyrillic Capital Letter Yi
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Lower
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0457 Cyrillic Small Letter Yi
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R