Em (Cyrillic)
Letter of the Cyrillic script
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Em (М м; italics: М м or М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1]
| Em (мꙑслитє) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| М м | |||
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| Usage | |||
| Writing system | Cyrillic | ||
| Type | Alphabetic | ||
| Language of origin | Old Church Slavonic | ||
| Sound values | [m], [mʲ] | ||
| In Unicode | U+041C, U+043C | ||
| History | |||
| Development |
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| Transliterations | M m | ||
| Other | |||
| Associated numbers | 40 (Cyrillic numerals) | ||
Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".
It is derived from the Phoenician letter mem and Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).
Form
The capital Cyrillic letter Em (М м) looks the same as the capital Latin letter M (M m) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase letter.
Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, Em represents the following sounds:
- bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him" or meet
- palatalized bilabial nasal consonant /mʲ/
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
| Language | Position in alphabet | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| Belarusian | 14th | /m/, /mʲ/ |
| Bulgarian | 13th | /m/, /mʲ/ |
| Macedonian | 16th | /m/ |
| Russian | 14th | /m/, /mʲ/ |
| Serbo-Croatian | 15th | /m/ |
| Ukrainian | 17th | /m/ |
Related letters and other similar characters
- Μ μ: Greek letter Mu
- M m: Latin letter M
- Ӎ ӎ: Cyrillic letter Em with tail
Computing codes
| Preview | М | м | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1052 | U+041C | 1084 | U+043C |
| UTF-8 | 208 156 | D0 9C | 208 188 | D0 BC |
| Numeric character reference | М | М | м | м |
| Named character reference | М | м | ||
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 237 | ED | 205 | CD |
| Code page 855 | 211 | D3 | 210 | D2 |
| Code page 866 | 140 | 8C | 172 | AC |
| Windows-1251 | 204 | CC | 236 | EC |
| ISO-8859-5 | 188 | BC | 220 | DC |
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 140 | 8C | 236 | EC |
