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  in "yes".

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

Related letters and other similar characters
Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
Й й : Cyrillic letter Short I
І і : Cyrillic letter Decimal I
Ҋ ҋ : Cyrillic letter Short I with tail
,  : Cyrillic letter Je with belt
J j : Latin letter J
Y y : Latin letter Y

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