ι

See also: Ι [U+0399 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA], ί [U+03AF GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS], ΐ [U+0390 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS], ϊ [U+03CA GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA], Ϊ [U+03AA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA], ῑ [U+1FD1 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON], ἵ [U+1F35 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA], ɩ [U+0269 LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA], and Appendix:Variations of "i"

ι U+03B9, ι GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA ← θ [U+03B8] Greek and Coptic κ → [U+03BA]

Character variations

ι U+1FBE, ι GREEK PROSGEGRAMMENI ← ᾽ [U+1FBD] Greek Extended ᾿ → [U+1FBF]

𝜄 U+1D704, 𝜄 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL IOTA ← 𝜃 [U+1D703] Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 𝜅 → [U+1D705]

Translingual

Symbol

ι

1. (mathematics, uncommon) imaginary unit
2. (logic) the definite descriptor

See also

• ι on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from its majuscule counterpart Ι.

Letter

ι • (i) (lowercase, uppercase Ι)

1. Lower-case iota (ἰῶτα), the ninth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the close front unrounded vowel /i/. It is preceded by θ and followed by κ.

Derived terms

See also upsilon

• ι΄, ͵ι
• ɩ, Ɩ (Latin)
• і, І; ꙇ, Ꙇ (Cyrillic)
• 𐌹 (Gothic)
• ⲓ, Ⲓ (Coptic)

See also

• (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
• (non-Classical letters) Ϝ (W) ϝ (w), Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ (H) ͱ (h), Ϻ (S) ϻ (s), Ϟ ϟ, Ϙ (Q) ϙ (q), Ͳ (S) ͳ (s)
• (punctuation) · ⸳ . ;
• (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨

Greek

Letter

ι • (i) (lowercase, uppercase Ι)

1. The lower case letter iota (γιώτα), the ninth letter of the modern Greek alphabet. Transliterated as I or J.

See also

• (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
• (non-Classical letters) Ϝ (W) ϝ (w), Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ (H) ͱ (h), Ϻ (S) ϻ (s), Ϟ ϟ, Ϙ (Q) ϙ (q), Ͳ (S) ͳ (s)
• (punctuation) · ⸳ . ;
• (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨
• ι΄
• ͵ι