む

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 武 in the cursive sōsho style.

• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝ]

む (romaji mu)

1. The hiragana syllable む (mu). Its equivalent in katakana is ム (mu). It is the thirty-third syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ま行う段 (ma-gyō u-dan, “row ma, section u”).

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

On’yomi of several Chinese characters.

む (rōmaji mu)

1. 矛: spear; lance
2. 務: work; job; serve, service
3. 無: no; not; non-; un-
4. 霧: fog; mist
5. 夢: dream
6. 牟: Used in transliteration.
7. 武:
8. 墓: grave; tomb

• (Tokyo) む​ [múꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝ]

む (rōmaji mu)

1. Used to indicate a mumbling sound.

From Old Japanese.

む (rōmaji -mu)

1. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi) Used to form the conjectural form of verbs, equivalent to modern う (-u) / よう (-yō).

Conjugation: defective, with the 終止形 (shūshikei, “terminal form”) and the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) む (mu), which was also written as ん (n), and the 已然形 (izenkei, “realis form”) め (me). In Old Japanese, the 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis form”) ま (ma) is also seen in the -ku nominal form まく (maku).

• ん (-n)
• う (-u)
• よう (-yō)