Latin Capital Letter J
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 74 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter j.
- Alt code
- Alt+74
- HTML entity
- J
- Unicode
- U+004A
About this symbol
J is the youngest letter of the English alphabet. It began as a decorative form of I with a tail, and only in the sixteenth century did printers start using it for a separate consonant sound. The Italian writer Gian Giorgio Trissino argued for the distinction in 1524.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase 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.