Í

Latin I with acute

Í,í(i-acute) is a letter in theFaroese,Hungarian,Icelandic,Karakalpak,Czech,andSlovak languages,where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (eein English wordfeel). This form also appears inCatalan,Irish,Italian,Occitan,Portuguese,Spanish,Aragonese,Galician,Leonese,Navajo,andVietnamese languageas a variant of the letter "i". InLatin,thelong i⟨ꟾ⟩is used instead of⟨í⟩for a long i-vowel.

Usage in various languages

Chinese

In Chinesepinyiní is theyángpíngtone ( dương bình, high-rising tone) of “i”.

Faroese

Í is the 11th letter of theFaroese Alpha betand represents/ʊi/.

Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and Slovak

Í is the 16th letter of theHungarian Alpha bet,the 12th letter of theIcelandic Alpha bet,the 16th letter of theCzech Alpha betand the 18th letter of theSlovak Alpha bet.It represents/iː/.

Ibero-Romance

InIbero-Romancelanguages, the "í" is not considered a letter, but the letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress.

Italian

Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word:víola( "violates",pronounced[ˈviːola]) andviòla( "violet",pronounced['vjɔːla]).

Karakalpak

Í is the 13th letter of theKarakalpak Alpha bet.It represents/ɯ/.Its preferred lowercase form is⟨ı⟩.

Vietnamese

InVietnamese Alpha betí is thesắctone (high-rising tone) of “i”.

Character mappings

Character information

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

• Acute accent