Em (Cyrillic)

Em (мꙑслитє)
М м
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originOld Church Slavonic
Sound values[m], [mʲ]
In UnicodeU+041C, U+043C
History
Development
N35
TransliterationsM m
Other
Associated numbers40 (Cyrillic numerals)
Em, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book

Em (М м; italics: М м or М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1]

Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".

It is derived from the 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:

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.

LanguagePosition in
alphabet		Pronunciation
Belarusian14th/m/, /mʲ/
Bulgarian13th/m/, /mʲ/
Macedonian16th/m/
Russian14th/m/, /mʲ/
Serbo-Croatian15th/m/
Ukrainian17th/m/

Computing codes

Character information
PreviewМм
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1052U+041C1084U+043C
UTF-8208 156D0 9C208 188D0 BC
Numeric character referenceММмм
Named character referenceМм
KOI8-R and KOI8-U237ED205CD
Code page 855211D3210D2
Code page 8661408C172AC
Windows-1251204CC236EC
ISO-8859-5188BC220DC
Macintosh Cyrillic1408C236EC

References

  1. ↑ Nakanishi, Akira (1990), Writing Systems of the World, Tuttle Publishing, p. 20, ISBN 0804816549.
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