j

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

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

Translingual

Wikipedia

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 ^[edit]

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 ^[edit]

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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 ^[edit]

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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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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 ^[edit]