Î, î (i-circumflex) is a letter in the Kurdish, Turkish and Romanian languages. This letter also appears in French, Welsh 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".
Other usage
In mathematics
- The letter
is sometimes used to denote a unit vector in mathematics.
Character mappings
| Charset | Unicode | ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 |
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| Majuscule Î | U+00CE | CE |
| Minuscule î | U+00EE | EE |
| Ascii î | Alt+140 |
See also
External links
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Letter I with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646 |
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