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Йй
Name и кратко
Sounds like y as in yes or boy
In Latin letters y
Four faces
- Йй Print
- Йй Bulgarian print
- Йй Italic
- Handwriting
coming
Italic й looks like ŭ.
Words
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Bulgaria's national food; the bacterium is named Lactobacillus bulgaricus.
Remember it
И with a hat: the short, quick y.
Trap
Not И. It is the consonant y; its name means short i.
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.