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j.

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

1 character1 syllables approx.English language

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character/dʒeɪ/letter, name/ˈd͡ʒaɪ/Scotland, archaic, dialectal/dʒ/phoneme
  1. The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

    letter · lowercase
noun/dʒeɪ/letter, name/ˈd͡ʒaɪ/Scotland, archaic, dialectal/dʒ/phoneme
  1. A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').

    slang
    "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

adv/dʒeɪ/letter, name/ˈd͡ʒaɪ/Scotland, archaic, dialectal/dʒ/phoneme
  1. Abbreviation of just.

    Internet · abbreviation · alt-of · not-comparable
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.