й

Character	й
Unicode name	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
Cyrillic	U+0439

See also: Appendix:Variations of "i"

Russian

Cyrillic letter Й й
(Й й), normal above, italics below.

Handwritten forms

Letter

й • (j) (lower case, upper case Й)

1. The eleventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is и краткое (i krátkoje, or "short i") or ий (ij), and it sounds like the y in York or boy. It is preceded by И and followed by К.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet
• Search en.wiktionary.org for articles beginning with: Й, й

---

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j]

• Audio

  (file)

Letter

й • (j) (lower case, upper case Й) (italics: Й, й)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet.

Conjunction

й • (j)

1. and