î U+00EE, î
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Composition:i [U+0069] + ◌̂ [U+0302]
í
[U+00ED]
Latin-1 Supplement ï
[U+00EF]

English

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î

  1. (lexicography) An orthographic ⟨i⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the FLEECE vowel, as in the word "machine".
  2. (lexicography) An element of the digraph îr, a dictionary transcription for the NEAR vowel

Hadza

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Verb

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î

  1. to say, to tell
    Synonyms: he, hiyagga

Italian

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î (upper case Î)

  1. The a conflation of a double letter ⟨i⟩ when pronounced as a single /i/, e.g. genî or genii ('geniuses', plural of genio) vs geni ('genes', plural of gene).

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Both the diacritic and the double i are dated or didactic except where needed to avoid confusion.

Northern Kurdish

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î

  1. second-person singular present of bûn

Romanian

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î (lower case, upper case Î)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called î or î din i and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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  • See the usage notes at Î.

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Tlingit

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î (upper case Î)

  1. (Canada) A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: ée

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Turkish

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î (lower case, upper case Î)

  1. The letter of the Turkish alphabet, called î and written in the Latin script.

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Not specified in the alphabet, but used officially to mark the elongated i vowel in Persian and Arabic loanwords.

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Walloon

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î (upper case Î)

  1. A letter of the Walloon alphabet, written in the Latin script..

Welsh

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î (upper case Î)

  1. The letter I, marked for its long stressed pronunciation, either in a monosyllabic word or in the final syllable of a polysyllabic word.

Yele

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î

  1. A letter of the Yele alphabet.

Derived terms

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  • The digraph îî transcribes the long vowel /ɯː/

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