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J vs U - What's the difference?

j | u |

As letters the difference between j and u

is that j is the tenth letter of the while u is the letter u with an acute accent.

As a symbol j

is the symbol for joule, the unit of work or energy in the international system of units.

j

Translingual

(wikipedia j)

Letter

  • The tenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (Palatal approximant) (head)
  • palatal approximant
  • one
    • ?j
  • :: one ounce
  • (label) (l)

    • See also

    (Latn-script) {{Letter , page=J , NATO=Juliet , Morse=·––– , Character=J0 , Braille=?}} Image:Latin J.png, Capital and lowercase versions of J , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter J.png, Uppercase and lowercase J in Fraktur ----

    u

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=t, next=v, image=

    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-first letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "u")

    Etymology 2

    Symbol

    (head)
  • symbol for unified atomic mass unit
  • ).
  • (label) up quark

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }} Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur ----