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j¹

  • /dʒeɪ/ letter, name
  • /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ Scotland, archaic, dialectal
  • /dʒ/ phoneme

Sounds like jay · Rhymes with -eɪ, -aɪ

letter J · js · j's

  1. letter, lowercase The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

j²

  • /dʒeɪ/ letter, name
  • /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ Scotland, archaic, dialectal
  • /dʒ/ phoneme

Sounds like jay · Rhymes with -eɪ, -aɪ

noun js

  1. slang A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint'). "I went outside to smoke myself a J" — Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening" from the album, "One Trick Pony."
  2. An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
  3. The second unit vector, after i

j³

  • /dʒeɪ/ letter, name
  • /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ Scotland, archaic, dialectal
  • /dʒ/ phoneme

Sounds like jay · Rhymes with -eɪ, -aɪ

adverb

  1. Internet, abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of just im lwk j chillin wbu?

J⁴

  • /d͡ʒeɪ/ letter, name
  • /d͡ʒeː/ South Asia, letter, name
  • /d͡ʒaɪ/ Scotland, letter, name

Rhymes with -eɪ

letter j · Js · J's · J. · j.

  1. letter, uppercase The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

noun Js · J's · JJ · J. · j. · j

  1. slang (plural Js or J's) A marijuana cigarette (abbreviation of joint). I stepped outside to smoke myself a J.
  2. In the name of a serial publication: abbreviation of Journal. "Custody or upbringing" is regarded as including access; yet in B. v. B. & F. above no regard was paid to the welfare of the infants which was irrelevant to the particular issue with which the court was concerned—namely whether children were "children of the family". But the effect was to deprive th
  3. abbreviation, postpositional (plural JJ) Abbreviation of judge or justice In the result, six members of the Court (Dawson J. dissenting) are in agreement that the common law of this country recognizes a form of native title which, in the cases where it has not been extinguished, reflects the entitlement of the indigenous inhabitants, in accordance with their laws or custo
  4. UK, abbreviation Abbreviation of junction The Highways Agency plan to close J10 of the M5 to refurbish the motorway bridge.
  5. abbreviation Abbreviation of jack
  6. abbreviation Abbreviation of jump shot And Durant had a front seat for just how much work DeRozan was putting in during their time together in Rio. "I watched him man," Durant said. "His footwork in the post is flawless. His jump shot in the mid-range is incredible. That is the type of stuff I look at as a basketball guy, his footwork, h
  7. in plural, slang (plural Js or J's) an Air Jordan shoe Don't pay no mind, Antwon, it's just an angry-ass J...

proper noun J. · j. · j

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Jehovist

symbol J. · j. · j

  1. Tatami mat, used as a unit of floorspace area (Kyoto tatami are 0.955 by 1.91 m, Nagoya 0.91 by 1.82 m, Tokyo 0.88 by 1.76 m). (From 畳 (-jō).)

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@misc{j_2026,
  title = {j},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/j},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}