む, in
hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...
, or ム in
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...
, is one of the Japanese
kana
The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most p ...
, which each represent one
mora. 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
ん, in hiragana or ン in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. ん is the only kana that does not end in a vowel sound (although in certain cases the vowel ending of kana, such as す, is unpronounced). The ka ...
.
In the
Ainu language, 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.
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
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Character encoding
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s
See also
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厶 (Radical 28)
References
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Specific kana