Article · Wikipedia archive · Last revised Jun 17, 2026

Dotless J

ȷ is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, obtained by writing the lowercase letter j without a dot.

Last revised
Jun 17, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
Length
150 w
Citations
2
Source
Uppercase ⟨J⟩ on the left; dotless lowercase ⟨ȷ⟩ on the right. source ↗

ȷ is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, obtained by writing the lowercase letter j without a dot.

Dotless j was formerly used in Karelian to mark palatalisation.1 It is also found in the Swedish Dialect Alphabet, in an Adyghe orthography from 1922, a transcription of Khakas by Vasily Radlov2 and in the Basque orthography of Sabino Arana.

Encoding

Character information
Preview ȷ
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 567 U+0237
UTF-8 200 183 C8 B7
Numeric character reference ȷ ȷ
Named character reference ȷ
See also

See also

References

References