Combining Cyrillic Letter I

It supplies an omitted i in a shortened word. Scribes wrote letters above the line when abbreviating frequent or sacred words. This kind of raised letter is called a titlo-letter; ꙵ contributes to the word's spelling rather than standing as a separate letter.

The abbreviation practice appears in Cyrillic manuscripts from the 10th century CE. Later Church Slavonic printing made the use of raised letters more regular. Other marks in the same system can signal an abbreviation without supplying this particular letter.

How do I type ꙵ?

Enter the base letter first, then ꙵ. It is a combining mark, so its position depends on the letter before it. Use a Unicode-aware editor's code-point entry for U+A675.

The documented pair ⷣꙵ represents de-i in a compound raised-letter spelling. A font may join the two marks or stack them; the text and reading remain the same.