Ĵ

{{short description|Latin letter J with circumflex; used in Esperanto}}

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{{Infobox grapheme

|name= J with circumflex

|letter= Ĵ ĵ Jh jh Jx jx

|variations=

|image= Latin letter J with circumflex.svg

|imageclass= skin-invert-image

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|script= Latin script

|type= Alphabet

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|language= Esperanto language

|phonemes= {{IPAblink|ʒ}}

|unicode=U+0134 U+0135

|alphanumber=14

|fam1=D36

|fam2=File:Proto-semiticI-01.svg

|fam3=File:Proto-semiticI-02.svg

|fam4=Image:Phoenician yodh.svg

|fam5=File:Early Aramaic character - yud.png

|fam6=File:Greek_Iota_normal.svg

|fam7=Ιι

|fam8=𐌉

|fam9=I i

|fam10=J j ȷ

|usageperiod=1887 to present

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|direction=Left-to-right

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Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound {{IPAblink|ʒ}}.{{Cite web|url=https://omniglot.com/writing/esperanto.htm|title=Esperanto language, alphabet and pronunciation}}

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.

{{H-system|Ĵ|ĵ|J|j|fourteenth}}

Ĵ is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ژ.{{cn|date=November 2023}}