Mu (kana)

mu
transliteration mu
hiragana origin
katakana origin

, in hiragana, or in katakana, 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 [mu͍].

In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with .

In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound.[1] This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
mu
muu
むう, むぅ
むー
ムウ, ムゥ
ムー
Other additional forms
Form (mw-)
Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
mwa むぁ ムァ
mwi むぃ ムィ
(mwu) (むぅ) (ムゥ)
mwe むぇ ムェ
mwo むぉ ムォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing ム
Stroke order in writing ム
Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing ム

Other representations

Character
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER MUKATAKANA LETTER MUHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MUKATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12416U+308012512U+30E065425U+FF9112794U+31FA
UTF-8227 130 128E3 82 80227 131 160E3 83 A0239 190 145EF BE 91227 135 186E3 87 BA
Numeric character referenceむむムムムムㇺㇺ
Shift JIS130 22282 DE131 12883 80209D1
  • Braille
む / ム in Japanese Braille
む / ム
mu
むう / ムー
Other kana based on Braille
みゅ / ミュ
myu
みゅう / ミュー
myū
⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456) ⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) 

See also

  • (Radical 28)

References

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