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'Short I' (Й, й) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И (which resembles a reversed Latin capital N), with a breve.
It is the eleventh letter in the Russian alphabet, and in 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.
It is the fourteenth letter in the Ukrainian alphabet, and in Ukrainian is called Йот, (''Yot'') or Ий (''Yi'', pronounced ).
It is also the eleventh letter of the Belarusian alphabet, however the letter И is not used in Belarusian.
Short I represents the semivowel as in English 'y'ellow, but appears predominantly in the form of diphthongs like in широк'ий' (wide) in кр'ай' (end, krai), in дол'ей' (portion), in гор'ой' (mountain), and in б'уй'ство (violence). It is transliterated as ''j, y,'' or ''i'' depending on which romanization system is used. See Transliteration of Russian into English and Romanization of Ukrainian.
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 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 the Berlitz Russian "self-teacher" book, the letter is used to spell the Russian version of "New York:" Ню-Йорк.
In Serbian and Macedonian, the letter Ј is used to represent the same sound. Latin-based Slavonic writing systems (Polish, Czech, Croatian, etc.) also use the letter J for that purpose.

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Code positions

Character encoding	Case	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Octal	Binary
Unicode	Capital	1049	0419	002031	0000010000011001
	Small	1081	0439	002071	0000010000111001
ISO 8859-5	Capital	185	b9	271	0010111001
	Small	217	d9	331	0011011001
KOI 8	Capital	234	ea	352	0011101010
	Small	202	ca	312	0011001010
Windows 1251	Capital	201	c9	311	0011001001
	Small	233	e9	351	0011101001

Its HTML entities are: Й or Й for capital and й or й for lowercase.

See also

★ И

★ Ј

★ Ў