Adrian VossUnicode Typography Researcher

Fact-checked & hand-testedUpdated January 20, 2026

I with accent ì í î ï — copy & ALT codes

I wears the full diacritic wardrobe: acute and grave in Romance languages, circumflex in French and Welsh (î), diaeresis in naïve, tilde in Greenlandic, and a macron in Māori and Latvian. Istanbul’s dotted capital İ is a letter of its own in Turkish. This page collects every accented i recognized by the Unicode Standard — 35 characters in total (17 lowercase, 18 capital and digraph forms)

Each character can be copied with a single click, typed with its ALT code, or produced with the keyboard shortcuts proven below — no memorisation required if you bookmark this page.

On this page

Accented I copy and paste

Click any tile below — the character goes straight to your clipboard, ready to paste with Ctrl + V or Cmd + V.

Small letter i with accent17

Capital letter I with accent18

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Accented I with ALT code — full table

Hold the Alt key and type the number shown on your numeric keypad to produce that letter on Windows. The Unicode column is used for Word’s Alt + X method and by developers.

ALT Code	Symbol	Description	Unicode
`Alt + 204`	Ì	Capital letter I with Grave	U+00CC
`Alt + 205`	Í	Capital letter I with Acute	U+00CD
`Alt + 206`	Î	Capital letter I with Circumflex	U+00CE
`Alt + 207`	Ï	Capital letter I with Diaeresis	U+00CF
`Alt + 236`	ì	Small letter I with Grave	U+00EC
`Alt + 237`	í	Small letter I with Acute	U+00ED
`Alt + 238`	î	Small letter I with Circumflex	U+00EE
`Alt + 239`	ï	Small letter I with Diaeresis	U+00EF
`Alt + 296`	Ĩ	Capital letter I with Tilde	U+0128
`Alt + 297`	ĩ	Small letter I with Tilde	U+0129
`Alt + 298`	Ī	Capital letter I with Macron	U+012A
`Alt + 299`	ī	Small letter I with Macron	U+012B
`Alt + 300`	Ĭ	Capital letter I with Breve	U+012C
`Alt + 301`	ĭ	Small letter I with Breve	U+012D
`Alt + 302`	Į	Capital letter I with Ogonek	U+012E
`Alt + 303`	į	Small letter I with Ogonek	U+012F
`Alt + 304`	İ	Capital letter I with Dot Above	U+0130
`Alt + 305`	ı	Small letter Dotless I	U+0131
`Alt + 306`	Ĳ	Capital letter IJ	U+0132
`Alt + 307`	ĳ	Small letter IJ	U+0133
`Alt + 406`	Ɩ	Capital letter I with Stroke	U+0196
`Alt + 463`	Ǐ	Capital letter I with Caron	U+01CF
`Alt + 464`	ǐ	Small letter I with Caron	U+01D0
`Alt + 520`	Ȉ	Capital letter I with Double Grave	U+0208
`Alt + 521`	ȉ	Small letter I with Double Grave	U+0209
`Alt + 522`	Ȋ	Capital letter I with Inverted Breve	U+020A
`Alt + 523`	ȋ	Small letter I with Inverted Breve	U+020B
`Alt + 7724`	Ḭ	Capital letter I with Tilde Below	U+1E2C
`Alt + 7725`	ḭ	Small letter I with Tilde Below	U+1E2D
`Alt + 7726`	Ḯ	Capital letter I with Diaeresis and Acute	U+1E2E
`Alt + 7727`	ḯ	Small letter I with Diaeresis and Acute	U+1E2F
`Alt + 7880`	Ỉ	Capital letter I with Hook Above	U+1EC8
`Alt + 7881`	ỉ	Small letter I with Hook Above	U+1EC9
`Alt + 7882`	Ị	Capital letter I with Dot Below	U+1ECA
`Alt + 7883`	ị	Small letter I with Dot Below	U+1ECB

How to type accented i on the keyboard

Two dependable methods, demonstrated with ì (i with grave) — both tested on Windows 11 and Microsoft 365.

Method 1 — Numeric keypad ALT code

Windows

Type ì into any Windows program using its ALT code, Alt + 236. You need a working numeric keypad with Num Lock on.

1Click exactly where you want the accented i letter to appear — in Word, an email, a browser field, anywhere.
2Make sure Num Lock is on. On laptops without a separate keypad, enable the embedded keypad first with Fn + Num Lock.
3Press and hold the Alt key.
4While keeping Alt held, type 236 on the numeric keypad.
5Release Alt — ì appears where your cursor is parked.

If a code produces the wrong symbol: very long ALT codes (four digits and beyond) can render as a placeholder glyph in older apps. Repeat the same steps inside a Microsoft Word document — Word resolves the full Unicode range correctly, and you can copy the result anywhere else.

Method 2 — Unicode value + Alt X

Word & Office

Every character owns a hexadecimal ID — for ì it is U+00EC. Microsoft Word converts that ID into the character itself.

1Open a Word document (or any Office app that supports Unicode).
2Type the four-character code 00EC using your regular keyboard.
3Without pressing space, hit Alt + X together.
4Word swaps the code for the letter — 00EC becomes ìinstantly.

This trick works both ways: place your cursor after any accented character and press Alt + X to reveal its Unicode value. It is the fastest way to identify a mystery character you have received in a document.

Microsoft Word accent shortcuts

Press the combination, release, then type the letter.

`Ctrl + ' (apostrophe)`	the vowel	á é í ó ú ý
Ctrl + ` (grave)	the vowel	à è ì ò ù
`Ctrl + Shift + ^`	the vowel	â ê î ô û
`Ctrl + Shift + ~ (tilde)`	a, n or o	ã ñ õ
`Ctrl + Shift + : (colon)`	the vowel or y	ä ë ï ö ü ÿ
`Ctrl + Shift + @`	a or A	å Å
`Ctrl + Shift + &`	a or A	æ Æ
`Ctrl + Shift + &`	o or O	œ Œ
`Ctrl + , (comma)`	c or C	ç Ç
`Ctrl + ' (apostrophe)`	d or D	ð Ð
`Ctrl + /`	o or O	ø Ø
`Ctrl + Shift + &`	s	ß
`Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ?`	—	¿
`Alt + Ctrl + Shift + !`	—	¡

macOS Option-key accents

Press Option + key, release, then type the letter — or press and hold the letter key.

Acute ´	`Option + E`	á é í ó ú
Grave `	Option + `	à è ì ò ù
Circumflex ^	`Option + I`	â ê î ô û
Tilde ~	`Option + N`	ã ñ õ
Umlaut ¨	`Option + U`	ä ë ï ö ü ÿ
Cedilla Ç	`Option + C (Shift for Ç)`	ç Ç

Technical information for accented I

Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS and JavaScript escapes and UTF-8 byte sequences for every character on this page.

Latin Capital Letter I with Grave

Unicode	`U+00CC`
HTML (decimal)	`Ì`
HTML (hex)	`Ì`
CSS content	`\00CC`
JS / Java / C	`\u00CC`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 8C`

Latin Capital Letter I with Acute

Unicode	`U+00CD`
HTML (decimal)	`Í`
HTML (hex)	`Í`
CSS content	`\00CD`
JS / Java / C	`\u00CD`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 8D`

Latin Capital Letter I with Circumflex

Unicode	`U+00CE`
HTML (decimal)	`Î`
HTML (hex)	`Î`
CSS content	`\00CE`
JS / Java / C	`\u00CE`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 8E`

Latin Capital Letter I with Diaeresis

Unicode	`U+00CF`
HTML (decimal)	`Ï`
HTML (hex)	`Ï`
CSS content	`\00CF`
JS / Java / C	`\u00CF`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 8F`

Latin Small Letter I with Grave

Unicode	`U+00EC`
HTML (decimal)	`ì`
HTML (hex)	`ì`
CSS content	`\00EC`
JS / Java / C	`\u00EC`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 AC`

Latin Small Letter I with Acute

Unicode	`U+00ED`
HTML (decimal)	`í`
HTML (hex)	`í`
CSS content	`\00ED`
JS / Java / C	`\u00ED`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 AD`

Latin Small Letter I with Circumflex

Unicode	`U+00EE`
HTML (decimal)	`î`
HTML (hex)	`î`
CSS content	`\00EE`
JS / Java / C	`\u00EE`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 AE`

Latin Small Letter I with Diaeresis

Unicode	`U+00EF`
HTML (decimal)	`ï`
HTML (hex)	`ï`
CSS content	`\00EF`
JS / Java / C	`\u00EF`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C3 AF`

Latin Capital Letter I with Tilde

Unicode	`U+0128`
HTML (decimal)	`Ĩ`
HTML (hex)	`Ĩ`
CSS content	`\0128`
JS / Java / C	`\u0128`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 A8`

Latin Small Letter I with Tilde

Unicode	`U+0129`
HTML (decimal)	`ĩ`
HTML (hex)	`ĩ`
CSS content	`\0129`
JS / Java / C	`\u0129`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 A9`

Latin Capital Letter I with Macron

Unicode	`U+012A`
HTML (decimal)	`Ī`
HTML (hex)	`Ī`
CSS content	`\012A`
JS / Java / C	`\u012A`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AA`

Latin Small Letter I with Macron

Unicode	`U+012B`
HTML (decimal)	`ī`
HTML (hex)	`ī`
CSS content	`\012B`
JS / Java / C	`\u012B`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AB`

Latin Capital Letter I with Breve

Unicode	`U+012C`
HTML (decimal)	`Ĭ`
HTML (hex)	`Ĭ`
CSS content	`\012C`
JS / Java / C	`\u012C`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AC`

Latin Small Letter I with Breve

Unicode	`U+012D`
HTML (decimal)	`ĭ`
HTML (hex)	`ĭ`
CSS content	`\012D`
JS / Java / C	`\u012D`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AD`

Latin Capital Letter I with Ogonek

Unicode	`U+012E`
HTML (decimal)	`Į`
HTML (hex)	`Į`
CSS content	`\012E`
JS / Java / C	`\u012E`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AE`

Latin Small Letter I with Ogonek

Unicode	`U+012F`
HTML (decimal)	`į`
HTML (hex)	`į`
CSS content	`\012F`
JS / Java / C	`\u012F`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 AF`

Latin Capital Letter I with Dot Above

Unicode	`U+0130`
HTML (decimal)	`İ`
HTML (hex)	`İ`
CSS content	`\0130`
JS / Java / C	`\u0130`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 B0`

Latin Small Letter Dotless I

Unicode	`U+0131`
HTML (decimal)	`ı`
HTML (hex)	`ı`
CSS content	`\0131`
JS / Java / C	`\u0131`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 B1`

Latin Capital Letter IJ

Unicode	`U+0132`
HTML (decimal)	`Ĳ`
HTML (hex)	`Ĳ`
CSS content	`\0132`
JS / Java / C	`\u0132`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 B2`

Latin Small Letter IJ

Unicode	`U+0133`
HTML (decimal)	`ĳ`
HTML (hex)	`ĳ`
CSS content	`\0133`
JS / Java / C	`\u0133`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C4 B3`

Latin Capital Letter I with Stroke

Unicode	`U+0196`
HTML (decimal)	`Ɩ`
HTML (hex)	`Ɩ`
CSS content	`\0196`
JS / Java / C	`\u0196`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C6 96`

Latin Capital Letter I with Caron

Unicode	`U+01CF`
HTML (decimal)	`Ǐ`
HTML (hex)	`Ǐ`
CSS content	`\01CF`
JS / Java / C	`\u01CF`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C7 8F`

Latin Small Letter I with Caron

Unicode	`U+01D0`
HTML (decimal)	`ǐ`
HTML (hex)	`ǐ`
CSS content	`\01D0`
JS / Java / C	`\u01D0`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C7 90`

Latin Capital Letter I with Double Grave

Unicode	`U+0208`
HTML (decimal)	`Ȉ`
HTML (hex)	`Ȉ`
CSS content	`\0208`
JS / Java / C	`\u0208`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C8 88`

Latin Small Letter I with Double Grave

Unicode	`U+0209`
HTML (decimal)	`ȉ`
HTML (hex)	`ȉ`
CSS content	`\0209`
JS / Java / C	`\u0209`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C8 89`

Latin Capital Letter I with Inverted Breve

Unicode	`U+020A`
HTML (decimal)	`Ȋ`
HTML (hex)	`Ȋ`
CSS content	`\020A`
JS / Java / C	`\u020A`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C8 8A`

Latin Small Letter I with Inverted Breve

Unicode	`U+020B`
HTML (decimal)	`ȋ`
HTML (hex)	`ȋ`
CSS content	`\020B`
JS / Java / C	`\u020B`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`C8 8B`

Ḭ

Latin Capital Letter I with Tilde Below

Unicode	`U+1E2C`
HTML (decimal)	`Ḭ`
HTML (hex)	`Ḭ`
CSS content	`\1E2C`
JS / Java / C	`\u1E2C`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 B8 AC`

ḭ

Latin Small Letter I with Tilde Below

Unicode	`U+1E2D`
HTML (decimal)	`ḭ`
HTML (hex)	`ḭ`
CSS content	`\1E2D`
JS / Java / C	`\u1E2D`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 B8 AD`

Ḯ

Latin Capital Letter I with Diaeresis and Acute

Unicode	`U+1E2E`
HTML (decimal)	`Ḯ`
HTML (hex)	`Ḯ`
CSS content	`\1E2E`
JS / Java / C	`\u1E2E`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 B8 AE`

ḯ

Latin Small Letter I with Diaeresis and Acute

Unicode	`U+1E2F`
HTML (decimal)	`ḯ`
HTML (hex)	`ḯ`
CSS content	`\1E2F`
JS / Java / C	`\u1E2F`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 B8 AF`

Ỉ

Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above

Unicode	`U+1EC8`
HTML (decimal)	`Ỉ`
HTML (hex)	`Ỉ`
CSS content	`\1EC8`
JS / Java / C	`\u1EC8`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 BB 88`

ỉ

Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above

Unicode	`U+1EC9`
HTML (decimal)	`ỉ`
HTML (hex)	`ỉ`
CSS content	`\1EC9`
JS / Java / C	`\u1EC9`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 BB 89`

Ị

Latin Capital Letter I with Dot Below

Unicode	`U+1ECA`
HTML (decimal)	`Ị`
HTML (hex)	`Ị`
CSS content	`\1ECA`
JS / Java / C	`\u1ECA`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 BB 8A`

ị

Latin Small Letter I with Dot Below

Unicode	`U+1ECB`
HTML (decimal)	`ị`
HTML (hex)	`ị`
CSS content	`\1ECB`
JS / Java / C	`\u1ECB`
UTF-8 (hex bytes)	`E1 BB 8B`

Accented I — questions people ask

The Windows ALT code for ì (Latin Small Letter I with Grave) is Alt + 236. Hold Alt, type 2, 3, 6 on the numeric keypad and release Alt. Inside Word you can type 00EC followed by Alt + X instead — or simply click the character on this page to copy it.

On Windows use Alt + 204 with the numeric keypad; in Microsoft Word type 00CC then press Alt + X. On a Mac, press the matching Option-key accent, release, then type Shift + I. Copy-and-paste from the grid above works in every program.

Hold the Option key together with the accent key, release, then press i. Option + E applies an acute accent, Option + ` a grave, Option + I a circumflex, Option + N a tilde and Option + U an umlaut. Alternatively press and hold the i key and a pop-up menu lists every variation.

Characters beyond the first 256 code points need full Unicode support. When a long ALT code shows a placeholder symbol, redo the steps inside Word — it resolves the complete range — or copy the letter directly from this page, which works in every modern application.

I with accent ì í î ï — copy & ALT codes

Accented I copy and paste

Small letter i with accent17

Capital letter I with accent18

Accented I with ALT code — full table

How to type accented i on the keyboard

Method 1 — Numeric keypad ALT code

Method 2 — Unicode value + Alt X

Microsoft Word accent shortcuts

macOS Option-key accents

Technical information for accented I

Accented I — questions people ask

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