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". Common Glagolitic script is "Ⰿ and Ⱞ"
It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).
As used in the alphabets of various languages, Em represents the following sounds:
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/ |
Preview | М | м | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | 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 |
Named character reference | 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 |