Template:Short description Template:One source Template:Infobox grapheme Template:Esperanto sidebar Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound Template:IPAblink.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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 used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ژ.Template:Cn
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In mathematicsEdit
- The letter ĵ is often used to denote a unit vector in mathematics and physics for representing y-vector.
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