Í

I with acute in Doulos SIL

Í, í (i-acute) is a letter in the Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragonese, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter "i". In Latin, the long i ⟨ꟾ⟩ is used instead of ⟨í⟩ for a long i-vowel.

Usage in various languages

Faroese

Í is the 11th letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ʊi/.

Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Czech and Slovak

Í is the 16th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, the 12th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, the 16th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 18th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /iː/.

Karakalpak

Í is the 13th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet. It represents /ɯ/. Its preferred lowercase form is ⟨ı⟩.

Vietnamese

In Vietnamese alphabet í is the sac tone (high-rising tone) of “i”.

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin í is the yángpíng tone (阳平, high-rising tone) of “i”.

Ibero-Romance

In Ibero-Romance languages, 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]) and viòla ("violet", pronounced ['vjɔːla]).

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