What is I (Cyrillic)?
{{Cyrillic alphabet| Heading=Cyrillic letter I| Image=[[File:Cyrillic letter I - uppercase and lowercase.svg|100px|Cyrillic letter I - uppercase and lowercase]]}} '''I''' ('''И''', '''и''') is the ninth letter in the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. It sounds like [i] or [ee]. It looks like a backwards [[N]]. The [[wikt:lowercase|lowercase]] и's [[wikt:italic|italic]] looks like a ''и''. Its old name was ''izhe''. It came from the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] [[eta (letter)|eta]] and stands for the [[Roman alphabet|Roman]] [[I]]. There is another letter, the [[decimal I]] (''І'', ''і''), that sounds the same as И. [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] languages use only И; and [[Church Slavonic]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] uses both И and і. To tell the letters apart, И is sometimes called ''octal I'' because was eighth in the Cyrillic numeral system. ==Related pages== * [[Eta (letter)]] * [[I]] * [[Decimal I]] {{Europe-stub}}