Je (Cyrillic)
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Je is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
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It commonly represents the palatal approximant
/j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in "yes".
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
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It commonly represents the palatal approximant
Palatal approximant
The palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is '...
/j/, like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in "yes".
Usage
| Language | | pronunciation | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Altai | voiced postalveolar affricate Voiced postalveolar affricate The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dZ⟩... /dʒ/ |
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| Azerbaijani Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran... |
/j/ | corresponds to ⟨y⟩ in the official Latin alphabet |
| Kildin Sami | voiceless palatal approximant /j̊/ | the letter Short I with tail (Ҋ ҋ) is also used |
| Macedonian Macedonian language Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora... |
/j/ | Previously, Macedonian authors used either І і or Й й. |
| Serbian Serbian language Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries.... |
/j/ | in Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the letter Je replaced the traditional letter Short I Short I Short I is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve.Short I represents the palatal approximant , like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in toy.... (Й й), which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy |
Related letters and other similar characters
- Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I : Cyrillic letter Short I with tail
- J j : Latin letter JJĴ or ĵ is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound .While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic...
- Y y : Latin letter YYY is the twenty-fifth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet and represents either a vowel or a consonant in English.-Name:In Latin, Y was named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This was pronounced as I Graeca "Greek I", since Latin speakers had trouble pronouncing , which was not a native sound...
Computing codes
| character | Ј | ј | ||
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... |
1032 | 0408 | 1112 | 0458 |
| UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... |
208 136 | D0 88 | 209 152 | D1 98 |
| Numeric character reference Numeric character reference A numeric character reference is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML-related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the Universal Character Set of Unicode... |
Ј | Ј | ј | ј |
| Code page 855 Code page 855 Code page 855 is a code page used under MS-DOS to write Cyrillic script. This code page is not used much.-Code page layout:... |
143 | 8F | 142 | 8E |
| Windows-1251 Windows-1251 Windows-1251 is a popular 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages... |
163 | A3 | 188 | BC |
| ISO-8859-5 | 168 | A8 | 248 | F8 |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 183 | B7 | 192 | C0 |