Em (Cyrillic)
| Cyrillic letter Em | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ꙕ | Ю̂ |  |  | Ꙗ | |||
| Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
| Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
| Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||||||
Em (М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1]
Em commonly represents the
is "Ⰿ and Ⱞ"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 nasalconsonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him" or meet
- palatalized bilabial nasalconsonant /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
| 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
- ISBN 0804816549.
