Mu (kana)

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"ム" redirects here. For the bopomofo, see ㄙ.

Character of the Japanese writing system

|  Hiragana
|  Katakana

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Transliteration| mu
Hiragana origin| 武
Katakana origin| 牟
Man'yōgana| 牟 武 無 模 務 謀 六
Spelling kana| 無線のム Musen no "mu"
Unicode| U+3080, U+30E0
Braille|
kana gojūon

| wa| ra| ya| ma| ha| na| ta| sa| ka| a

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wi| ri| (yi)| mi| hi| ni| chi| shi| ki| i
(wu)| ru| yu| mu| fu| nu| tsu| su| ku| u
we| re| (ye)| me| he| ne| te| se| ke| e
wo| ro| yo| mo| ho| no| to| so| ko| o
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Kana modifiers and marks

* sokuonfu (gemination)
* yōon (palatalization)
* chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
* Iteration marks
* dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks)

Multi-moraic kana

* iu
* kashiko
* koto
* sama
* shite
* toki
* tomo
* nari
* mairasesoro
* yori

* v
* t
* e

む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent [mɯ].

In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん.

In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound.[1] This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.

Form  | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)  | mu | む  | ム
muu, mwu
mū | むう, むぅ
むー  | ムウ, ムゥ

Other additional forms

Form (mw-) | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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mwa | むぁ, むゎ  | ムァ, ムヮ
mwi | むぃ  | ムィ
(mwu) | (むぅ)  | (ムゥ)
mwe | むぇ  | ムェ
mwo | むぉ  | ムォ

## Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing む | Stroke order in writing ム

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Stroke order in writing む Stroke order in writing ム

## Other communicative representations

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Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code

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無線のム
Musen no "Mu" |  ▄▄▄ ⓘ

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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)  | Braille dots-13456
Japanese Braille

* Full Braille representation

む / ム in Japanese Braille

む / ム
mu | むう / ムー
mū | Other kana based on Braille む
みゅ / ミュ
myu | みゅう / ミュー
myū
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* Character encodings

Character information  Preview | む | ム | ﾑ | ㇺ | ㋰

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER MU  | KATAKANA LETTER MU  | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU  | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU  | CIRCLED KATAKANA MU
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12416 | U+3080 | 12512 | U+30E0 | 65425 | U+FF91 | 12794 | U+31FA | 13040 | U+32F0
UTF-8 | 227 130 128 | E3 82 80 | 227 131 160 | E3 83 A0 | 239 190 145 | EF BE 91 | 227 135 186 | E3 87 BA | 227 139 176 | E3 8B B0
Numeric character reference | &#12416; | &#x3080; | &#12512; | &#x30E0; | &#65425; | &#xFF91; | &#12794; | &#x31FA; | &#13040; | &#x32F0;
Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 |  |  |  |
Shift JIS-2004[3] | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | 131 247 | 83 F7 |  |
EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 |  |  |  |
EUC-JIS-2004[5] | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 | 166 249 | A6 F9 |  |
GB 18030[6] | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 132 49 154 53 | 84 31 9A 35 | 129 57 189 52 | 81 39 BD 34 |  |
EUC-KR[7] / UHC[8] | 170 224 | AA E0 | 171 224 | AB E0 |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9] | 198 228 | C6 E4 | 199 120 | C7 78 |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[10] | 199 103 | C7 67 | 199 220 | C7 DC |  |  |  |  |  |

## See also

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* 厶 (Radical 28)

## References

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Look up む or ム in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

1. ^ "Katakana Phonetic Extensions – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers".
2. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
3. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
5. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
7. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
8. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
9. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
10. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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