Em (Cyrillic)
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".
It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).
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"
- 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
Character | М | м | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 |
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
- ↑ Nakanishi, Akira (1990), Writing Systems of the World, Tuttle Publishing, p. 20, ISBN 0804816549.
External links
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