[j]

 

[jɛs]     yes
jɛlo]     yellow
[kjut]     cute

The IPA [j] symbol represents the y sound, just like the letter j usually does in German.

(The IPA symbol [y] does not represent this sound. It represents a non-English vowel sound -- [i] pronounced with your lips rounded -- as in French lune [lyn] 'moon'.)

 

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