M/m

Also known as m, em, Mike, ᴍ, M, mike

M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of several western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em (pronounced ), plural ems.

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M (or m) is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet and is used in English and many other languages around the world. It matters because it is a fundamental building block of written communication, allowing people to spell and write words in these languages.

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Grapheme.name: M
Grapheme.letter: M m
Grapheme.script: Latin script
Grapheme.type: Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc: ic and Logographic
Grapheme.language: Latin language
Grapheme.unicode: U+004D, U+006D
Grapheme.alphanumber: 13
Grapheme.number: 1000
Grapheme.fam1: N35
Grapheme.fam2: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Maym
Grapheme.fam3: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Mem
Grapheme.fam4: class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam5: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek My
Grapheme.fam6: Μ μ
Grapheme.fam7: class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam8: 𐌌
Grapheme.usageperiod: 700 BCE to present

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Image: Semaphore Mike.svg

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Commons gallery: M
code: Mike
Commons category: Latin letters
Unicode character: ⅿ

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History
Use in writing systems
English
Other languages
Other systems
Other uses
Related characters
Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
Ligatures and abbreviations
Other representations
Computing <span class="anchor" id="Computing codes"></span>
Other
Notes
References
External links

==History== {| class="wikitable" ! Egyptian hieroglyph"n" ! PhoenicianMem ! Western GreekMu ! EtruscanM ! LatinM |--- align=center |n | class=skin-invert-image|25x25px | class=skin-invert-image|35px | class=skin-invert-image|25px | class=skin-invert-image|x30px|Latin M |} The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a "Proto-Sinaitic" (Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value , from the Egyptian word for "water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mā(y)-.