TJ

See also: tj, .tj, tj., and -tj

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

TJ

1. (metrology) Symbol for terajoule, an SI unit of work or energy equal to 10¹² joules.

Etymology 2

Symbol

TJ

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Tajikistan since 1992.

   Synonym: TJK (alpha-3)

English

Proper noun

TJ

1. Abbreviation of Tijuana (“Mexican city”).
   • 2016, Mike Salazar, Steak & Cherry Pie‎^[1]:

     That was when Customs stopped every car at the S. D. border and checked for drugs, which reminds me of the first time I went to TJ—Tijuana, Mexico.

2. Initialism of Trader Joe's.

   Alternative form: TJ's

   • 2014 January 22, Michael Hiltzik, “Is Target right to send its part-timers to Obamacare? Probably.”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 August 2014:

     Trader Joe's was rather more forthcoming about its policy. […] TJ made public a couple of examples of how its new policy would affect workers with selected wage and hour characteristics.

   • 2025 January 23, Emma Saletta, “Inside the world's busiest Trader Joe's where checkout lines are long and cell phone service is non-existent”, in Daily Mail‎^[3], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 June 2026:

     'I love TJ in California so had to see NYC TJ setup. As expected, the Broadway/72 store was split in two stories for maximum capacity,' another customer wrote.

   • 2025 October 17, Samantha Bergeson, “Tiny, Scarce, and Wildly Popular: How Trader Joe’s Mini Totes Became the New Labubus”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2025:

     Trader Joe’s “doesn’t feel like a grocery store—it feels like a local farmers market, but with much more reasonable prices,” [Natasha] Fischer tells Vanity Fair. That atmosphere breeds allegiance—and means that when there’s a drop such as the Halloween totes, TJ customers show up.

Anagrams

• JT

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈxei/ [t̪iˈxei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei

Proper noun

TJ

1. initialism of Tijuana: a city in Baja California, Mexico
   • 2023, “77 [77]”, in GÉNESIS [GÉNESIS], performed by Peso Pluma [Peso Pluma] and Eladio Carrión [Eladio Carrión]:

     Con los plebones en TJ yo aquí ando

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)