Hi (Armenian letter)

Hi, or Yi (uppercase: Յ; lowercase: յ; Armenian: հի; Classical Armenian: յի) is the 21st letter of the Armenian alphabet. It is pronounced as the voiced palatal approximant [j], or the voiceless glottal fricative [h] word-initially and silent word-finally in Classical Armenian orthography.^[1] It is typically romanized with the letter H, J or Y.^[2] Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a numerical value of 300.^[3]

Hi
Յ յ
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	j, h
In Unicode	U+0545, U+0575
Alphabetical position	21
History
Time period	405-present
Other
Associated numbers	300
Writing direction	Left-to-right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Յ		յ
Unicode name	ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER YI		ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER YI
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1349	U+0545	1397	U+0575
UTF-8	213 133	D5 85	213 181	D5 B5
Numeric character reference	Յ	Յ	յ	յ

Gallery

Various historic fonts

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  Rounded Erkat'agir
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  Angular Erkat'agir
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  Bolorgir
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  Notrgir
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  Shghagir
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  Typographic form
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  Handwritten form