Why does an I have a dot?

So why is there a dot above the lowercase i and j? This diacritical mark is also called a tittle and it exists to help the reader easily distinguish them from other letterforms.

What is the I without the dot in Turkish?

Dotted and dotless I are two different letters in the Turkish alphabet. One of them (İ, i) has a dot above it and the other (I, ı) does not. This is true in both the capital and lower case forms of the letters (see the picture). The dotless I has the /ɯ/ sound, while the dotted İ has the /i/ sound.

What does a dot under a letter mean?

The dot below the letter i is a diacritic mark — dot is actually the correct term for the kind of mark it is. In the case of Vietnamese, it denotes the nặng tone (low, glottal), used on the base vowels: ạ ặ ậ ẹ ệ ị ọ ộ ợ ụ ự ỵ

How do you type a dotless I?

You can also input a dotless I with the keyboard shortcut Shift + Option + B or Shift + Alt + B.

What is the J?

J, or j, is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the y sound, it may be called yod or jod (pronounced /ˈjɒd/ or /ˈjoʊd/).

What is the purpose of a tittle?

a dot or other small mark in writing or printing, used as a diacritic, punctuation, etc.

What character is I?

Unicode Character “ı” (U+0131)

Name:	Latin Small Letter Dotless I
UTF-8 Encoding:	0xC4 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding:	0x0131
UTF-32 Encoding:	0x00000131
Uppercase Character:	I (U+0049)

What is the dot over an i and AJ called?

A tittle or superscript dot is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic in the form of a dot on a lowercase i or j. The tittle is an integral part of the glyph of i and j, but diacritic dots can appear over other letters in various languages.

Does the capital I have a dot?

Dotted İ, İ i, usually denotes the close front unrounded vowel sound (/i/). Both the upper and lower case versions have a dot.