Ï

For the Cyrillic letter Ї, see Yi (Cyrillic). For the homographic Greek letter, see ϊ.

Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis or

In Afrikaans, [[Catalan language|CatalanDutch, French, Galician, Welsh, Southern Sami, and occasionally [[English language English inthe pronunciation of such a word—that is, it indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate syllables, rather than together as a diphthong or digraph. For example, French maïs (IPA: [ma.is], maize); without the diaeresis, the ⟨i⟩ is part of the digraph ⟨ai⟩: mais (IPA: [mɛ], but). The letter is also in

In the transcription of the languages of the Amazon, ï is used to represent the high central vowel [ɨ].

Character information

Preview	Ï		ï
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS		LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	207	U+00CF	239	U+00EF
UTF-8	195 143	C3 8F	195 175	C3 AF
Numeric character reference	Ï	Ï	ï	ï
Named character reference	Ï		ï
EBCDIC family	119	77	87	57
ISO 8859-1/2/3/4/9/10/14/15/16	207	CF	239	EF

See also

• Umlaut (diacritic)
• Yi (Cyrillic)