j

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER J
Basic Latin	U+006A

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.2 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Romanian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 6 Spanish 6.1 Letter

Translingual

Wikipedia

Letter

j lower case (upper case J)

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

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

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

Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
•  Audio (UK)^{help, file}

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

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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

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Italian

Noun

j m. and f. inv.

1. See under J

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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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Spanish

Letter

j (lower case, upper case J)

1. The eleventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.