Em (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter Em
Numeric value:	40
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
А Б В Г Ґ Д Ђ Ѓ Е Ѐ Ё Є Ж З З́ Ѕ И Ѝ І Ї Й Ј К Л Љ М Н Њ О П Р С С́ Т Ћ Ќ У Ў Ф Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ А̄ А̊ А̃ Ӓ Ӓ̄ Ә Ә́ Ә̃ Ӛ Ӕ Ғ Г̧ Г̑ Г̄ Ҕ Ӻ Ӷ Ԁ Ԃ Ꚃ Ꚁ Ꚉ Ԫ Ԭ Ӗ Е̄ Е̃ Ё̄ Є̈ Ӂ Җ Ꚅ Ӝ Ԅ Ҙ Ӟ Ԑ Ԑ̈ Ӡ Ԇ Ӣ И̃ Ҋ Ӥ Қ Ӄ Ҡ Ҟ Ҝ Ԟ Ԛ Ӆ Ԯ Ԓ Ԡ Ԉ Ԕ Ӎ Ӊ Ң Ԩ Ӈ Ҥ Ԣ Ԋ О̆ О̃ О̄ Ӧ Ө Ө̄ Ӫ Ҩ Ԥ Ҧ Р̌ Ҏ Ԗ Ҫ Ԍ Ꚑ Ҭ Ꚋ Ꚍ Ԏ У̃ Ӯ Ӱ Ӱ́ Ӳ Ү Ү́ Ұ Х̑ Ҳ Ӽ Ӿ Һ Һ̈ Ԧ Ꚕ Ҵ Ꚏ Ҷ Ӵ Ӌ Ҹ Ꚓ Ꚗ Ꚇ Ҽ Ҿ Ы̆ Ы̄ Ӹ Ҍ Э̆ Э̄ Э̇ Ӭ Ӭ́ Ӭ̄ Ю̆ Ю̈ Ю̈́ Ю̄ Я̆ Я̄ Я̈ Ԙ Ԝ Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ꙁ Ꙃ Ꙅ Ꙇ Ꙉ Ҁ Ѻ ОУ Ꙋ Ѡ Ѽ Ꙍ Ѿ Ꙏ Ѣ Ꙑ Ꙓ Ꙕ Ꙗ Ѥ Ѧ Ꙙ Ѫ Ꙛ Ѩ Ꙝ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ Ꙟ Ꙡ Ꙣ Ꙥ Ꙧ Ꙩ Ꙫ Ꙭ ꙮ Ꚙ Ꚛ
List of Cyrillic letters Cyrillic digraphs

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).^[2]

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

1. Nakanishi, Akira (1990), Writing Systems of the World, Tuttle Publishing, p. 20, ISBN 0804816549.
2. Quiles, Carlos (2006), Europaio: A Brief Grammar of the European Language, Indo-European Association, p. 55, ISBN 8468977276.

External links

• The dictionary definition of М at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of м at Wiktionary