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Ии

Name и

Sounds like ee as in see (short)

German: i in Kino

In Latin letters i

Four faces

  • Ии Print
  • Ии Bulgarian print
  • Ии Italic
  • Handwriting
    coming

Italic и looks like a Latin u.

Words

Remember it

A backwards N: N-ot an N, it is ee.

Trap

Looks like a backwards N. It is a vowel, ee.

Try it

Three one-tap exercises come next: hear → tap the letter · see the letter → choose the sound · read a word → choose the picture.

Recordings: Lingua Libre speakers on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0). A dotted ▶ means your phone's own Bulgarian voice speaks, because no native recording exists yet.