U+0438 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I

The Unicode character U+0438, officially named CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Cyrillic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER II.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Cyrillic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.