m

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER M
Basic Latin	U+006D

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Letter 1.1.2 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Symbol 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Alternative forms 1.3.2 Numeral 1.3.2.1 Synonyms 1.4 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 See also 2.3 Abbreviation 2.3.1 Translations 2.4 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Letter 3.3 See also 4 Haitian Creole 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Pronunciation 4.1.2 Pronoun 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Letter 5 Italian 5.1 Noun 6 Japanese 7 !Kung 7.1 Verb 8 Latin 8.1 Letter 8.2 Abbreviation 9 Mandarin 9.1 Pinyin syllable 9.1.1 Usage notes 10 Romanian 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Letter 11 Spanish 11.1 Letter 12 Swahili 12.1 Noun class

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology 1

Modification of capital letter M, from Ancient Greek letter Μ (M), “‘Mu’”).

[edit] Letter

m lower case (upper case M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter M):  Ḿḿ  Ṁṁ  Ṃṃ  ᵯ  ᶆ  Ɱɱ  ᴍ  Ｍｍ
• (other scripts) μ (m, “‘mu’”), м (m, “‘em’”)
• Turned: ɯ

[edit] Etymology 2

Various abbreviations

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m

1. meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
2. milli-
3. (phonectics) used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial nasal (IPA: /m/), including Cyrillic м (m), “‘em’”), the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (m), “‘mieum’”).

[edit] Etymology 3

From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ⋈, from ∞, an alteration of ↀ, an alteration of Ⓧ, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

[edit] Alternative forms

• M, ⅿ, Ⅿ

[edit] Numeral

m (lower case roman numeral, upper case M)

1. (Roman numerals) cardinal number one thousand (1000)

[edit] Synonyms

• CIƆ

[edit] See also

Other representations of M:

NATO phonetic: Mike Morse code: –– Braille: ⠍ ASL Manual: M

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of M, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛm/, SAMPA: /Em/

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m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The letter em; the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, representing the phoneme /m/.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

[edit] Abbreviation

m

1. metre
2. (grammar) masculine
3. mile
4. milli
5. million

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• M

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: l
• Next letter: n

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology 1

Contraction of mwen from French moi.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

m

1. Contraction of mwen.

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Letter

m (lowercase, uppercase M)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Haitian Creole alphabet.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

m m. and f. inv.

1. See under M

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[edit] Japanese

m

1. meter

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[edit] !Kung

[edit] Verb

m

1. eat

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Letter

m

1. A letter from the Latin alphabet.

[edit] Abbreviation

m

1. Marcus

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

m

1. A transliteration of Chinese characters properly represented as having the tone ḿ or m̀.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /me/, /em/

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /m/. Preceded by l and followed by n.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

m (lower case, upper case M)

1. The 15th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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[edit] Swahili

[edit] Noun class

m- (pl. differs per definition)

1. A noun class denoting a child. (pl. wa-)
2. A noun class denoting a plant. (pl. mi-)