Î






Î, î (i-circumflex) is a letter in the Kurdish and Romanian languages. This letter also appears in French and Walon language as a variant of letter “i”.

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Usage in various languages

Kurdish

Î is the 12th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /iː/.

Romanian

Î is the 12th letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents /ɨ/. This sound is also represented in Romanian as letter â.

Italian

Î is a variant of I in Italian. It should be used when forming the plural of male nouns ending in "-io", to avoid placing the stress on the wrong syllable. Example: "principio" /prin'tʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural "principî" /prin'tʃipi/ , while "principe" /'printʃipe/ (prince) has "principi" /'printʃipi/ as plural. However, the usage of Î in Italian is rapidly decreasing; most Italians write "principi" for the plurals of both "principio" and "principe".

Character mappings

Charset Unicode ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Î U+00CE CE
Minuscule î U+00EE EE
Ascii î Alt+140

See also

External links

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter I with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent

history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters
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