Turned m
Letter of the Zhuang alphabet
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Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ; also 
, minuscule ɯ) is a letter that was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent a close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/. At some time in or before 1986, it was replaced with W. It was also used in Semyon Novgorodov's Yakut alphabet.
Typealphabetic
Language of originInternational Phonetic Alphabet, Yakut language, Tsakhur, Standard Zhuang, Dan language, Chami language
InUnicode
U+019C, U+026F| Turned M | |
|---|---|
| Ɯ ɯ | |
 | |
.svg) | |
| Usage | |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | International Phonetic Alphabet, Yakut language, Tsakhur, Standard Zhuang, Dan language, Chami language |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+019C, U+026F |
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it is used to represent the same vowel.
In some fonts, it is homoglyphic with the Cyrillic letter Sha, and in this manner it was used in the Tsakhur language,[1] representing the pharyngealized close central unrounded vowel /ɨˤ/. It is represented today by the digraph ⟨ЫI⟩.[citation needed]
In the FUT, it represents a close central rounded vowel.[2]
Usage on computers
| Preview | Ɯ | ɯ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED M | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED M | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 412 | U+019C | 623 | U+026F |
| UTF-8 | 198 156 | C6 9C | 201 175 | C9 AF |
| Numeric character reference | Ɯ | Ɯ | ɯ | ɯ |
