j

See also J, յ, and Appendix:Variations of "j"

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER J
Codepoint	U+006A
i ← Basic Latin → k

Translingual

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Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

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

Pronunciation

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Symbol

Wikipedia

j

1. (IPA) palatal approximant
2. (pharmacy, obsolete) one

   ℥j

   one ounce

See also

• (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

Other representations of J:

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

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of J, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur

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English

• The name of this letter is spelled jay or jy (formerly and in Scotland), plural jays

Pronunciation

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Letter

j lowercase (uppercase J)

1. The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

• In Spanish language loanwords and names, "j" is pronounced as an "h", for example in fajita and Julio.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; 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

Noun

j (plural js)

1. (slang) A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').

   "I went outside to smoke myself a J" — Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening" from the album, "One Trick Pony."

2. (mathematics) An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
3. (mathematics) The second unit vector, after i

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Azeri

Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA: /jeː/

Letter

j (lower case, upper case J)

1. The tenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: i
• Next letter: k

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called jo and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Italian

Noun

j m and f (invariable)

1. See under J

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Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [j]

Letter

J

j lower case (upper case J)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called jē and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

j

1. The tenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) 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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒe/

Letter

j (lowercase, capital J)

1. The tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /ʒ/. Preceded by î and followed by k.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase): J

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /j/

Letter

j (Cyrillic spelling ј)

1. The 14th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by i and followed by k.

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Spanish

Letter

j (lower case, upper case J)

1. The tenth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called je and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz