Cyrillic letter “Ukrainian-Belarusian i” or “izhei”, also formerly used in Russian before 1918
Also known as izhei · Belarusian i · Kazakh i · Rusyn i
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The dotted і, also called decimal i or soft-dotted i, is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel, like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in English "machine". It is used in the orthographies of Belarusian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Carpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian and quite often, but not always, is the equivalent of the Cyrillic letter і (И и) as used in Russian and other languages. It was also used in Russian before the spelling reform of 1918.