Latin Small Letter I With Diaeresis
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0239 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter i with diaeresis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0239
- HTML entity
- ï
- Unicode
- U+00EF
About this symbol
Two dots over a vowel in French tell you to say it separately from the vowel before it: maïs, maize, has two syllables, while mais, but, has one. English borrowed the habit in words such as naïve, and The New Yorker still writes coöperate.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Lowercase letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Accented Latin Letters chart for related characters.