Latin Small Letter J
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 106 on the numeric keypad to insert latin small letter j.
- Alt code
- Alt+106
- HTML entity
- j
- Unicode
- U+006A
About this symbol
The lowercase j, with its dot and tail, began as a decorative i at the end of Roman numerals, as in viij for 8, to show where the number ended. It became a separate letter for the j sound only in the sixteenth century.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Lowercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.