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Consonants /ʒ/ versus /j/, 0 pairs     

The dictionary search failed to find any words with this pairing. /ʒ/ is in any case very rare and does not occur in syllable initial position except in a few French loan words such as gendarme, while /j/ is restricted to syllable-initial occurrence. There is no reason why there should not be a pairing with a loan word, such as gigue versus *yeag (if there was such a word) but none have surfaced.

Credit: John Higgins