Ĵ
Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound [ʒ].
While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic. Ĵ is based on the French pronunciation of the letter j to better preserve the shape of borrowings from that language (such as ĵurnalo from journal) than Slavic ž would.
Ĵ is the fourteenth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. Although it is written as jx and jh respectively in the x-system and h-system workarounds, it is normally written as J with a circumflex: ĵ.
Usage
In mathematics
- The letter is sometimes used to denote a unit vector in mathematics.
Character mappings
Character | Ĵ | ĵ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX | LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 308 | U+0134 | 309 | U+0135 |
UTF-8 | 196 180 | C4 B4 | 196 181 | C4 B5 |
Numeric character reference | Ĵ | Ĵ | ĵ | ĵ |
See also
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