Em (М м; italics: ''М м'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...

. Em commonly represents the

bilabial nasal The voiced bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound which has been observed to occur in about 96% of spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m. ...

consonant , like the pronunciation of in "him". Common

Glagolitic script The Glagolitic script ( , , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint Cyril, a monk fro ...

is "Ⰿ and Ⱞ" 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: *

consonant , like the pronunciation of in "him" or meet * palatalized

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

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

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Cyrillic letters