Ī (Indic)

Ī
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewע
GreekΟ, Ω
LatinO
CyrillicО, Ѡ, Ѿ, Ꙋ, Ю
Properties
Phonemic representation/iː/
IAST transliterationī Ī
ISCII code pointA7 (167)

Ī is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Ī is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter . As an Indic vowel, Ī comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.