Mu (kana)

, in hiragana, or 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 [mu͍].

mu
hiragana
katakana
transliterationmu
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana牟 武 無 模 務 謀 六
spelling kana無線のム Musen no "mu"
unicodeU+3080, U+30E0
braille

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 .

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
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
mu
muu
むう, むぅ
むー
ムウ, ムゥ
ムー
Other additional forms
Form (mw-)
Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
mwa むぁ ムァ
mwi むぃ ムィ
(mwu) (むぅ) (ムゥ)
mwe むぇ ムェ
mwo むぉ ムォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing ム
Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing ム

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
む / ム in Japanese Braille
む / ム
mu
むう / ムー
Other kana based on Braille
みゅ / ミュ
myu
みゅう / ミュー
myū
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER MUKATAKANA LETTER MUHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MUKATAKANA LETTER SMALL MUCIRCLED KATAKANA MU
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12416U+308012512U+30E065425U+FF9112794U+31FA13040U+32F0
UTF-8227 130 128E3 82 80227 131 160E3 83 A0239 190 145EF BE 91227 135 186E3 87 BA227 139 176E3 8B B0
Numeric character referenceむむムムムムㇺㇺ㋰㋰
Shift JIS (plain)[2]130 22282 DE131 12883 80209D1
Shift JIS-2004[3]130 22282 DE131 12883 80209D1131 24783 F7
EUC-JP (plain)[4]164 224A4 E0165 224A5 E0142 2098E D1
EUC-JIS-2004[5]164 224A4 E0165 224A5 E0142 2098E D1166 249A6 F9
GB 18030[6]164 224A4 E0165 224A5 E0132 49 154 5384 31 9A 35129 57 189 5281 39 BD 34
EUC-KR[7] / UHC[8]170 224AA E0171 224AB E0
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9]198 228C6 E4199 120C7 78
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[10]199 103C7 67199 220C7 DC

See also

  • (Radical 28)

References

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