Em (Cyrillic)
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Em (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". Common Glagolitic script is "Ⰿ and Ⱞ"
It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).
Usage
[edit]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
[edit]- Μ μ: Greek letter Mu
- M m: Latin letter M
- Ӎ ӎ: Cyrillic letter Em with tail
Computing codes
[edit]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 |
References
[edit]- ^ Nakanishi, Akira (1990), Writing Systems of the World, Tuttle Publishing, p. 20, ISBN 0804816549.