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Em (Cyrillic)

Letter of the Cyrillic script

Em (Cyrillic)

Summary

Letter of the Cyrillic script

FieldValue
letterМ м
scriptCyrillic
typeAlphabet
typedescic
nameEm (мꙑслитє)
imageCyrillic letter Em - uppercase and lowercase.svg
imageclassskin-invert-image
phonemes[], []
number40 (Cyrillic numerals)
fam1Μ μ
unicodeU+041C, U+043C
languageOld Church Slavonic
equivalentsM m
''Em'', from [[Alexandre Benois]]' 1904 [[alphabet book

Em (М м; italics: М м or М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of in "him". Common Glagolitic script 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:

  • bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of in "him" or meet
  • palatalized bilabial nasal consonant

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

LanguagePosition in
alphabetPronunciation
Belarusian14th,
Bulgarian13th,
Macedonian16th
Russian14th,
Serbo-Croatian15th
Ukrainian17th

Computing codes

|041C|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Em |043C|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Em

References

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