Í

Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, and Tatar languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel. This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “i”. In Latin, the long i is used instead of í for a long i-vowel.

Usage in various languages

Faroese

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

Hungarian, Icelandic, Czech and Slovak

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/.

Tatar

Í is the 14th letter of the Tatar alphabet (based on Zamanälif). It represents /ɨɪ/.

Vietnamese

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

Chinese

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

Portuguese, Spanish

In Portuguese and Spanish, the "í" isn't considered a letter, but the letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress.

Italian

Í/í can be seen in place of the more common Ì/ì.

Character mappings

Character Í í
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
Encodings decimal hex decimal 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

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