む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one

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. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent . In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised . Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん. In the

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

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