Jēran

Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English		Old Norse
	*Jēra-	Gēr	Īor	Ár
	"year, harvest"	"year, harvest"	"eel"	"harvest, plenty"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc		Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᛃ U+16C3	ᛡ U+16E1 ᛄ U+16C4	ᛡ U+16E1	ᛡ U+16E1	ᛅ U+16C5	ᛆ U+16C6
Transliteration	j	j	io	A	a	a
Transcription	j	j	io	a
IPA	[j]	[j]	[jo]	[a]
Position in rune-row	12	12	28 or 29	10

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Jera (also Jeran, Jeraz) is the conventional name of the j-rune ᛃ of the Elder Futhark, from a reconstructed Common Germanic stem *jēra-^[1] meaning "harvest, (good) year".

The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is Gothic