Latin Capital Letter I
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 73 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter i.
- Alt code
- Alt+73
- HTML entity
- I
- Unicode
- U+0049
About this symbol
I comes from yodh, the Phoenician letter whose name meant hand. It became the Greek iota, the smallest letter, and in Latin it stood for both the vowel i and the consonant y sound. J split off from it much later.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Turkish and Azerbaijani use 0131 for lowercase
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.