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According to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, this has the same relation to ⟨y⟩ ([j]) as ⟨hw⟩ ([ʍ]) does to ⟨w⟩ ([w]) – this probably means the voiceless palatal fricative [ç], though Wikipedia says a voicless palatal approximant (which would be closer to [j], the voiced palatal approximant) is sometimes also posited. We previously emitted [[hj]] for ⟨hy⟩, which sounds fairly close to [ç], similar to how [[hw]] is fairly close to [ʍ] (see previous commit) – however, translating it into [[C]] again means better --ipa output. (In Sindarin, ⟨hy⟩ does not occur.)