ȷ

ȷ U+0237, ȷ LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J ← ȶ [U+0236] Latin Extended-B ȸ → [U+0238]

Translingual

Letter

ȷ

1. (until ca. 15th century) Obsolete form of j.
   • a. 1500, Richard Leighton Greene, editor, The Early English Carols, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1935, page 272:

     Yt ıs sene dayly both ın borows and townys / Wheras the copuls han mad obȷurgacyon, / The gowd wyff ful humanly to hyr spowse gaue gownys, / Wych [th]yng ıs orygınal of so gret presumpcyon / That often tymys the good man ıs fal ın a consumpcyon, / Wherfor, as I seyd, suffer not to mych / Lest the most mayster weryth no brych.

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Usage notes

Medieval dotless j would not normally be typeset with this character, but with normal U+006A and left to an appropriate font to render dotless.

Symbol

ȷ

1. Purportedly once used in the transliteration of the Khakas language.

Karelian

Pronunciation

Indicated palatalization of the preceding consonant letter.

Letter

ȷ

1. (obsolete, Tver dialect) A letter of the 1930 Latin alphabet for Tver Karelian.