(Й, й) is a letter in the
Cyrillic Alphabet . It is made of the Cyrillic
Letter И (which resembles 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 also the tenth letter in the
Bulgarian Alphabet and is called И кратко (''I kratko'' or "short I") in that
Bulgarian .
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It is the fourteenth letter in the
Ukrainian Alphabet , and in
Ukrainian is called Йот, (''Yot'') or Ий (''Yi'', pronounced ).
Short I represents the
Semivowel as in English ellow, but appears predominantly in the form of diphthongs like in широк'''ий''' (wide) in '''ай'''сберг (iceberg), 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 .
In
Serbian and
Macedonian ,
Letter Ј is used to represent the same sound.
Its
HTML Entities are: Й or Й for capital and й or й for small letter.
