Latin Small Letter I With Double Grave

Latin Small Letter I With Double Grave comes from Latin Extended-B, a block largely used by linguists, and by languages such as Vietnamese, several West African languages, and older romanization systems that need letter shapes beyond the standard Latin alphabet.

Unicode block: Latin Extended-B (U+0180–U+024F). Latin Extended-B holds rarer Latin-script letters used in African, Vietnamese, and historical European orthographies, plus phonetic symbols adopted from early Africanist and Americanist linguistic notation.

At Unicode code point U+0209 (decimal 521), Latin Small Letter I With Double Grave is the 138th of 208 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Mac keyboard shortcut, though no legacy Windows Alt code (Windows Alt codes only cover the original 0–255 codepage range) — Windows users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: This is a low-frequency character outside specialist and academic writing — most keyboards have no direct key for it, so copy-paste is standard practice.