What ᴵ means
Use Unicode input or the Finnish UPA Windows shortcut.
On the Finnish UPA Windows layout, press AltGr + Shift + I. In editors with Unicode input, enter U+1D35.
What does ᴵ mean in phonetic writing?
In UPA, it marks a very brief I-like segment.
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA), also called Finno-Ugric Transcription (FUT), was first published by Finnish linguist E. N. Setälä in 1901 as a proposal for transcribing Finno-Ugric languages. It records pronunciation, sound patterns, and word histories, so the raised form has a phonetic job.
UPA scholarship has spanned Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Russia, and later reached North America and Japan. In 2022, a guide to the Uralic languages used the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a shared notation for speech sounds, for languages without a Latin-based standard, while retaining traditional FUT for reconstructed forms: earlier forms inferred from language comparisons.
Is ᴵ a normal superscript I?
No; ᴵ is a phonetic character, not a styling shortcut.
Unicode treats modifier letters as spacing letters in their own right. Formatting an ordinary I as superscript changes its appearance, but does not create ᴵ or preserve its UPA notation. Use formatting when you only want a raised I; use ᴵ when a transcription calls for this encoded character.
Specialist phonetic notation; in ordinary text, ᴵ reads as a technical choice rather than conversational emphasis.
For visual emphasis, format I instead; ᴵ can look like unexplained phonetic notation.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᴵ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Phonetic Extensions block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ᴵ
- Also called
- superscript I · superscript capital I
- Search it as
- upa · fut · fupa · raised i · u+1d35 · small capital i · phonetic i · i beam
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᴵ\1D35U+1D35.AltGr + Shift + I.Why is ᴵ a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.