む, in
hiragana
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...
, or ム in
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...
, is one of the Japanese
kana, which each represent one
mora. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent .
In
older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised . Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with
ん.
In the
Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound.
This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
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Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. The numerical v ...
s
See also
*
厶 (Radical 28)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mu (Kana)
Specific kana