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IJ or Y (both: ī), inlet of the IJsselmeer, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on which Amsterdam is located. It receives the Amstel River and is connected by canals with the North Sea and with the Lek and Waal rivers.


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The letter combination IJ is:

  • the ligature of the letters I and J. In Dutch it usually represents the diphthong [ɛi], and is sometimes considered be to be a single letter: see IJ (digraph).

When used to represent this digraph, IJ can stand for:

  • IJ (bay), a body of water near Amsterdam, Netherlands

As an abbreviation, IJ can stand for:

As a code, IJ can be:

  • ij is a Java tool for interacting with ODBC databases.

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