Ĵ

Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound [ʒ].

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J circumflex
Ĵ ĵ Jh jh Jx jx
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabet
Language of origin	Esperanto language
Phonetic usage	[ʒ]
Unicode value	U+0134 U+0135
Alphabetical position	14
History
Development	Ιι 𐌉 I i İ ı J j ȷ Ĵ ĵ Jh jh Jx jx
Time period	1887 to present
Other

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.