J

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
Basic Latin	U+004A

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.3 Noun 2.4 Abbreviation 2.5 Related terms 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Letter 4.3 See also 5 Italian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 6 Latin 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Letter 7 Romanian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Letter 8 Slovene 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Spanish 9.1 Letter

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J upper case (lower case j)

1. The tenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter J):  Ĵĵ  Ɉɉ  J̌ǰ  ȷ  ʝ  ɟ  ʄ  ᴊ  Ｊｊ  IJij  IJij  LJLjlj  LJLjlj  NJNjnj  NJNjnj

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J

1. (metrology) The symbol for joule, the unit of work or energy in the International System of Units

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Other representations of J:

NATO phonetic: Juliet Morse code: ·––– Braille: ⠚ ASL Manual: J

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of J, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur

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[edit] English

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• IPA: /dʒeɪ/, SAMPA: /dZeI/

  Rhymes: -eɪ

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J (uppercase, lowercase j)

1. The tenth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by I and followed by K.

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J (plural Js or J's)

1. The tenth letter of the English alphabet.
2. (slang) A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').

   I stepped outside to smoke myself a J. — Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening"

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J

1. Journal
2. (law) Judge or justice, used after a name (plural JJ).

   1990: O'Loughlin J — Peabody v Commissioner of Taxation, Federal Court of Australia report [1]

3. As a prefix, Japanese (J-pop, J-rock, etc.).

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• CJ

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe J)

1. The letter J

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /jeː/

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J (capital, lowercase j)

1. The tenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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• Previous letter: I
• Next letter: K

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /iˈlunga/, SAMPA: /i"lunga/

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J m. and f. inv.

1. The tenth letter of the Latin alphabet

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[edit] Latin

In Latin, the letter J is a modern typographical convention for the consonant form of I. The letter I in ancient times represented either a vowel or a consonant, see I for more information.

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• Classical: IPA: /j/

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J

1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒe/

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J (capital, lowercase j)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /ʒ/. Preceded by Î and followed by K.

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[edit] Slovene

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J (capital, lowercase j)

1. The 11th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by I and followed by K.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

J (upper case, lower case j)

1. The eleventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.