Î

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

Usage in various languages

Afrikaans

In Afrikaans, î is a punctuated form of i and a usage example includes "wîe", plural of "wig" (= wedge).

Friulian

Î is used to represent the /iː/ sound.

Kurdish

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

Romanian

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

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" /prinˈtʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural "principî" /prinˈtʃipi/, while "principe" /ˈprintʃipe/ (prince) has "principi" /ˈprintʃipi/ as plural. However, the usage of Î in Italian is rapidly decreasing; most Italians write "principi" for the plurals of both "principio" and "principe".

French

Î is a letter which appears in several French words, like naître(to be born), abîme(abyss), maître(master) and more. Unlike Â, Ê, and Ô, the circumflex does not alter the pronunciation of î, nor does it alter û.

Turkish

In Turkish, î is used to indicate the /iː/ sound in Arabic loanwords where it is used as an adjectival suffix that makes an adjective from a noun.

Other usage

In mathematics

• The letter $\mathbf{\hat{\boldsymbol{\imath}}}$ is sometimes used to denote a unit vector in mathematics.

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

See also

• Circumflex
• ^I

External links

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

The ISO basic 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
Í í	Ì ì	Ĭ ĭ	Î î	Ǐ ǐ	Ïï	Ḯḯ	Ĩĩ	Į į	Ī ī	Ỉ ỉ	Ȉ ȉ	Ȋ ȋ	Ị ị	Ḭ ḭ	Ɨ ɨ	ᵻ	ᶖ	İ i	I ı	ꟾ
Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂ )
Ââ	Ĉĉ	Êê	Ĝĝ	Ĥĥ	Î î	Ĵĵ	Ôô	Ŝŝ	Ûû	Ŵŵ	Ŷŷ	Ẑẑ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 List of letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode