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"Й" is a Cyrillic letter used in several Slavic languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian, to represent a consonant sound similar to the English "y" in "yes." It appears in common words and is essential for proper spelling and pronunciation in these languages.
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Yot, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book Short I or Yot/Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called I Kratkoye, Russian: и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.
The short I represents the palatal approximant /j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in yesterday.