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ı U+0131, ı
LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
İ
Latin Extended-A IJ

Translingual

Letter

ı (upper case I)

  1. Dotless i: the letter i without a dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.
  2. Obsolete form of i.
    Coordinate term: ȷ
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎ (in Middle English), published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:5, page 118v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      ⁊ leıtıs ⁊ voıces ⁊ þundꝛıngıs camen out of þe troone / ⁊ ſeuene laũpıs bꝛẽnynge bıfoꝛe þe troone / whıche ben þe ſeuene ſpırıtıs of god
      And lightning, sounds, and thunder came out of the throne, and seven lamps were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
    • 1935 [a. 1500], Richard Leighton Greene, editor, The Early English Carols (in Middle English), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, page 272:
      Yt ıs sene dayly both ın borows and townys / Wheras the copuls han mad obȷurgacyon, / The gowd wyff ful humanly to hyr spowse gaue gownys, / Wych yng ıs orygınal of so gret presumpcyon / That often tymys the good man ıs fal ın a consumpcyon, / Wherfor, as I seyd, suffer not to mych / Lest the most mayster weryth no brych.
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Usage notes

  • Medieval dotless i would not normally be typeset with this character, but with normal U+0069 and left to an appropriate font to render dotless.

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Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

ı lower case (upper case I)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Chipewyan

Pronunciation

  1. IPA(key): /i/

Letter

ı (upper case I)

  1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Crimean Tatar

Letter

ı lower case (upper case I)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Gagauz

Letter

ı (lower case, upper case I)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Gagauz alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Karakalpak

Pronunciation

Letter

ı (upper case Í)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Karakalpak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Turkish

Pronunciation

Letter

ı (lower case, upper case I)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ı and written in the Latin script.

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Noun

ı

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter I/ı.

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