The letter â±® (
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the Letter (alphabet), letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain lang ...
: ɱ), called M with hook, meng, or emg, is a letter based on the letter
M. Its minuscule ɱ is used to transcribe a
labiodental nasal
The voiced labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter ''m'' with a leftward hook protruding from the lower right of the ...
in the
International Phonetic Alphabet.
In
Americanist phonetic transcription, the lowercase ɱ is used for transcribing a voiced
labiodental nasal
The voiced labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter ''m'' with a leftward hook protruding from the lower right of the ...
stop and the uppercase â±® for a voiceless labiodental nasal stop.
Use on computers
The majuscule and the minuscule are located at U+2C6E and U+0271 in
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
, respectively.
The Unicode U+0271 is used as a currency symbol for
Monero
Monero (; Abbreviation: XMR) is a decentralized cryptocurrency. It uses a public distributed ledger with privacy-enhancing technologies that obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses tr ...
because it looks like a combination of a lowercase "m" and lowercase "j". Thus, it is used as a shorthand for the Esperanto word "moneroj".
moneroj - Wikitionary
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References
Latin letters with diacritics
Phonetic transcription symbols
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