j

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The Universal Character Set
LetterJ.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER J
Basic Latin U+006A

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Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

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

See also

Other representations of J:


English

Pronunciation

Noun

J

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (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

Italian

Noun

j m. and f. inv.

  1. See under J

Romanian

Pronunciation

Letter

j (lowercase, capital J)

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

Spanish

Letter

j (lower case, upper case J)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.