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Short I

Short I (Й й; italics: Й й) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.

Short I represents the palatal approximant /j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in toy.

It is transliterated as ⟨j⟩ (used amongst European languages), ⟨y⟩ (the most common), or ⟨i⟩ (the least common, likely to be ĭ), depending on which romanization system is used. See Transliteration of Russian into English and Romanization of Ukrainian.

Active use of ⟨Й⟩ (or, rather, the breve over ⟨И⟩) began around the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, the differentiation between ⟨И⟩ and ⟨Й⟩ has become obligatory in the Russian variant of Church Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the alphabet reforms of Peter I, all diacritic marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after Peter I's death in 1735, the distinction between ⟨И⟩ and ⟨Й⟩ was restored. ⟨Й⟩ was not officially considered a separate letter of the alphabet until the 1930s.