I with acute (И́ и́; italics:
''И́ и́'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
. Its form is derived from the
Cyrillic letter I (И и ''И и'').
Usage
can be found mainly in the
East Slavic languages
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Sibe ...
as a stressed variants of , like Russian ви́ски ('whiskey'), виски́ ('temples'), пироги́ ('pies'), and пи́сать ('to pee').
Stress marks are fundamental and used in some special books like dictionaries, primers, or textbooks for foreigners, as stress is very unpredictable in all of these languages. However, in general texts, stress marks are rarely used, mainly to prevent ambiguity or to show the pronunciation of foreign words.
and other stressed (accented) vowels is needed in these languages to change the meaning and pronunciation of the words.
Related letters and other similar characters
*И и :
Cyrillic letter I
*Ѝ ѝ :
Cyrillic letter I with grave
*Й й :
Cyrillic letter Short I
*І і :
Cyrillic letter Dotted I
*Ї ї :
Cyrillic letter Yi
*I i :
Latin letter I
*Í í :
Latin letter I with acute - a Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak letter
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter И́ is not represented directly by a
precomposed character
A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diacri ...
in
Unicode
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either; it has to be
composed as
И+
◌́ (U+0301).
References
Letters with acute
Cyrillic letters with diacritics
{{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub