Em (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter M or the Greek letters Μ or Ϻ.

Em (мꙑслитє)
М м
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Old Church Slavonic
Sound values	[m], [mʲ]
In Unicode	U+041C, U+043C
History
Development	Μ μ М м
Transliterations	M m
Other
Associated numbers	40 (Cyrillic numerals)

Em, from Alexandre Benois' 1904 alphabet book

Em (М м; italics: М м or М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him".

It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).

Form

The capital Cyrillic letter Em (М м) looks the same as the capital Latin letter M (M m) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase letter.

Usage

As used in the alphabets of various languages, Em represents the following sounds:

• bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of ⟨m⟩ in "him" or meet
• palatalized bilabial nasal consonant /mʲ/

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/

Related letters and other similar characters

• Μ μ: Greek letter Mu
• M m: Latin letter M
• Ӎ ӎ: Cyrillic letter Em with tail

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	М		м
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

External links

• The dictionary definition of М at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of м at Wiktionary