I with bar

Not to be confused with ł (L with stroke) or ƚ (L with bar).

I with bar (majuscule: Ɨ, minuscule: ɨ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from I or i with the addition of a bar.

Latin I with bar

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, ɨ is used to represent a close central unrounded vowel. In American linguistic tradition, it is used to represent the weak vowel heard in the second syllable of roses when distinct from Rosa's.^[1] For related uses of the small capital barred i, see near-close central unrounded vowel.

The ISO 6438 (African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange) gives lowercase of Ɨ as ɪ, a small capital I, not ɨ.

Character information

Preview	Ɨ		ɨ		ᵻ		ᶤ		ᶧ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE		LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE		LATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE		MODIFIER LETTER SMALL I WITH STROKE		MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I WITH STROKE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	407	U+0197	616	U+0268	7547	U+1D7B	7588	U+1DA4	7591	U+1DA7
UTF-8	198 151	C6 97	201 168	C9 A8	225 181 187	E1 B5 BB	225 182 164	E1 B6 A4	225 182 167	E1 B6 A7
Numeric character reference	Ɨ	Ɨ	ɨ	ɨ	ᵻ	ᵻ	ᶤ	ᶤ	ᶧ	ᶧ

Variations

Ɨ̆ ɨ̆

Ɨ̆ ɨ̆

Ɨ́ ɨ́

Ɨ́ ɨ́

ɨ̆, small barred i written with a breve, represents a very short close central unrounded vowel. The breve indicates a very short, or overshort vowel.

In the Golin language, ɨ̆ is used in the IPA transcription of the very short high central epenthetic vowel phone, which is restricted to syllables closing with a sonorant.

In the Malayalam language, '്' is a symbol used to represent the IPA for ɨ̆.

Barred i is found written with an acute accent (majuscule: Ɨ́, minuscule: ɨ́) in the orthographies of several languages: Cora, Kenyang, Mfumte, etc. Depending on the language, the accent diacritic serves either to indicate the location of a word's primary stress or to mark rising tone.

See also

• ɫ (L-tilde)
• L with stroke (Ł, ł)
• D with stroke (Đ, đ)
• U with bar (Ʉ, ʉ)
• T with stroke (Ŧ, ŧ)
• Yery (Ы, ы)

References

1. Flemming, E., Johnson, S. (2007), "Rosa’s roses: reduced vowels in American English", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37/1, pp. 83–96.