Î

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Î, î (i-circumflex) is a letter in the Kurdish, Turkish and Romanian languages. This letter also appears in French and Walon language as a variant of letter “i”.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Kurdish 1.2 Romanian 1.3 Italian 2 Other usage 2.1 In mathematics 3 Character mappings 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Kurdish

Î is the 12th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /iː/.

[edit] Romanian

Î is the 12th letter of the Romanian alphabet and represents /ɨ/. This sound is also represented in Romanian as letter â.

[edit] Italian

Î is a variant of I in Italian. It should be used when forming the plural of male nouns ending in "-io", to avoid placing the stress on the wrong syllable. Example: "principio" /prin'tʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural "principî" /prin'tʃipi/ , while "principe" /'printʃipe/ (prince) has "principi" /'printʃipi/ as plural. However, the usage of Î in Italian is rapidly decreasing; most Italians write "principi" for the plurals of both "principio" and "principe".

[edit] Other usage

[edit] In mathematics

• The letter is sometimes used to denote a unit vector in mathematics.

[edit] Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Î	U+00CE	CE
Minuscule î	U+00EE	EE
Ascii î	Alt+140

[edit] See also

• Circumflex

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Kurdish language
  • Romanian language

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter I with diacritics ÍíÌìĬĭÎîǏǐÏïḮḯĨĩĮįĪīỈỉȈȉȊȋỊịḬḭƗɨᵻᶖİiIı Letters using circumflex accent ÂâĈĉÊêĜĝĤĥÎîĴĵÔôŜŝÛûŴŵŶŷẐẑ history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646