U+006A "j" Latin Small Letter J Unicode Character

U+006A "j" Latin Small Letter J is the lowercase version of the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet, with a code point that places it within the Basic Latin block, where it occupies the same position as its ASCII equivalent. In digital text, it represents a specific typographic form used in writing systems for languages such as English, where it often denotes a voiced palatal approximant sound, as in "jump". While visually distinct as a single-storey character with a descender and a dot, it can be combined with diacritical marks in extended Latin scripts, and it retains its standard functional role across programming languages and plain text as a distinct grapheme.

General Properties

Code Point	U+006A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter J
Block	Basic Latin
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	j
HTML Hex Encoding	j
UTF-8 Encoding	0x6A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x006A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000006A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u006a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Narrow
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"J" U+004A Latin Capital Letter J
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"J" U+004A Latin Capital Letter J
Uppercase Code Point	"J" U+004A Latin Capital Letter J
Titlecase Code Point	"J" U+004A Latin Capital Letter J
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Soft Dotted	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Lower