| J with circumflex | |
| Letter: | Ĵ ĵ Jh jh Jx jx |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Type: | Alphabet |
| Language: | Esperanto language |
| Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/ |
| Unicode: | U+0134 U+0135 |
| Alphanumber: | 14 |
| Fam1: | |
| Fam7: | Ιι |
| Fam9: | I i |
| Fam10: | J j ȷ |
| Usageperiod: | 1887 to present |
| Direction: | Left-to-right |
Ĵ or ĵ (J circumflex) is a letter in Esperanto orthography representing the sound pronounced as /link/.[1]
While Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for its four postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets, the base letters are Romano-Germanic. Ĵ is based on the French pronunciation of the letter j to better preserve the shape of borrowings from that language (such as ĵurnalo from journal) than Slavic ž would.
Ĵ is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ژ.