Je (Cyrillic)

Je (Ј ј; italics: Ј ј ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, taken over from the Latin letter J.

It commonly represents the palatal approximant, like the pronunciation of $⟨j⟩$ in "hallelujah".

History
The Cyrillic letter ј was introduced in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, on the basis of the Latin letter j. Karadžić had previously used ї instead for the same sound, a usage he took from Dositej Obradović, and the final choice also notably edged out another expected candidate, й, used in every other standard Slavic-language Cyrillic script.

Usage
An asterisk (*) means the language does not use the letter in its orthography anymore.

Related letters and other similar characters

 * Е е : Е|Cyrillic letter Ye
 * Й й : Й|Cyrillic letter Short I
 * І і : І|Cyrillic letter Dotted I
 * Ҋ ҋ : Ҋ|Cyrillic letter Short I with tail
 * Cyrillic_capital_letter_Je_with_inverted_belt.svg, Cyrillic_letter_small_capital_Je_with_inverted_belt.svg : Cyrillic letter Je with belt
 * J j : J|Latin letter J
 * Y y : Y|Latin letter Y