Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragonese, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter "i". In Latin, the long i ⟨ꟾ⟩ is used instead of í for a long i-vowel.[1]

I with acute in Doulos SIL

Usage in various languages edit

Faroese edit

Í is the 11th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ʊi/.

Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and Slovak edit

Í is the 16th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, the 12th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, the 16th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 18th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /iː/.

Karakalpak edit

Í is the 13th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet. It represents /ɯ/. Its preferred lowercase form is ⟨ı⟩.

Vietnamese edit

In Vietnamese alphabet í is the sac tone (high-rising tone) of “i”.

Chinese edit

In Chinese pinyin í is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “i”.

Ibero-Romance edit

In Ibero-Romance languages, the "í" is not considered a letter, but the letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress.

Italian edit

Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: víola ("violates", pronounced [ˈviːola]) and viòla ("violet", pronounced ['vjɔːla]).

Character mappings edit

Character information
Preview Í í
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 205 U+00CD 237 U+00ED
UTF-8 195 141 C3 8D 195 173 C3 AD
Numeric character reference Í Í í í
Named character reference Í í
ISO 8859-1/2/3/4/9/10/14/15/16 205 CD 237 ED

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode Character "Í" (U+00CD)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-17.