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Not to be confused with
ញ ,
ᛖ ,
₥ ,
ℳ ,
ෆ , or
ʍ .
M m letter of the Latin alphabet , used in the modern English alphabet , the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em ems .[1 ]
History
Use in writing systems
Other uses
Styled letter M in the coat of arms of Miehikkälä
The Roman numeral M represents the number 1000 , though it was not used in Roman times . There is, however, scant evidence that the letter was later introduced in the early centuries A.D. by the Romans.[3 ]
Unit prefix M (mega), meaning one million times, and m (milli) meaning one-thousandth.[4 ] [5 ]
m is the standard abbreviation for metre (or meter) in the International System of Units (SI ).[4 ] mile .[5 ]
M is used as the unit abbreviation for molarity .[4 ]
With money amounts, m or M can mean one million: For example, $5m is five million dollars.[4 ] [5 ]
M often represents male or masculine, especially in conjunction with F for female or feminine.[4 ] [5 ]
In typography, an em dash is a punctuation symbol whose width is similar to that of a capital letter M.
M with diacritics : Ḿ ḿ Ṁ ṁ Ṃ ṃ M̃ m̃ ᵯ[6 ]
IPA -specific symbols related to M: ɱ ɰ
Ɱ : Capital M with hook
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet -specific symbols related to M:[7 ]
U+1D0D ᴍ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL M
U+1D1F ᴟ LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS TURNED M
U+1D39 ᴹ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL M
U+1D50 ᵐ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL M
U+1D5A ᵚ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M
Some symbols related to M were used by the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902:[8 ]
U+2098 ₘ LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER M
U+A7FA ꟺ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M
The Teuthonista phonetic transcription system uses U+AB3A ꬺ LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH CROSSED-TAIL [9 ]
Other variations used for phonetic transcription:[10 ] ᶆ ᶬ ᶭ
Ɯ ɯ : Turned M
ꟽ : Inverted M was used in ancient Roman texts to stand for mulier (woman)[11 ]
ꟿ : Archaic M was used in ancient Roman texts to abbreviate the personal name 'Manius' (A regular capital M was used for the more common personal name 'Marcus')[11 ]
ℳ : currency symbol for Mark
Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets
𐤌 : Semitic letter Mem , from which the following symbols originally derive:
Μ μ : Greek letter Mu
Ⲙ ⲙ : Coptic letter Me, which derives from Greek Mu
М м : Cyrillic letter Em
𐌌 : Old Italic M, which derives from Greek Mu, and is the ancestor of modern Latin M
ᛗ : Runic letter Mannaz , which derives from old Italic M
𐌼 : Gothic letter manna, which derives from Greek Mu
Ligatures and abbreviations
Other representations
Computing
Character information
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M m Ｍ
ｍ
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER M
Encodings
decimal
hex
dec
hex
dec
hex
dec
hex
Unicode 77 U+004D
109
U+006D
65325
U+FF2D
65357
U+FF4D
UTF-8 77 4D
109
6D
239 188 173
EF BC AD
239 189 141
EF BD 8D
Numeric character reference M
M
m
m
Ｍ
Ｍ
ｍ
ｍ
EBCDIC family212
D4
148
94
ASCII 1 77 4D
109
6D
1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other
References
^ See F. Simons,『Proto-Sinaitic — Progenitor of the Alphabet』Rosetta 9 (2011):
Figure Two: "Representative selection of proto-Sinaitic characters with comparison to Egyptian hieroglyphs", (p. 38)
Figure Three: "Chart of all early proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. 39),
Figure Four: "Representative selection of later proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to early proto-Canaanite and proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. 40). See also: Goldwasser (2010), following Albright (1966), "Schematic Table of Proto-Sinaitic Characters" (fig. 1 Archived 2016-07-03 at the Wayback Machine ).
^ Gordon, Arthur E. (1983). Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy University of California Press . pp. 45 ISBN 9780520038981 . Retrieved October 3, 2015 . roman numerals.
^ a b c d e "What does M stand for?" . The Free Dictionary . Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021 .
^ a b c d "M definition and meaning" . Collins English Dictionary . Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021 .
^ Constable, Peter (September 30, 2003). "L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ Everson, Michael ; et al. (March 20, 2002). "L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (January 27, 2009). "L2/09-028: Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (June 2, 2011). "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ Constable, Peter (April 19, 2004). "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ a b Perry, David J. (August 1, 2006). "L2/06-269: Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
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L a s t e d i t e d o n 4 J u l y 2 0 2 4 , a t 1 3 : 3 8 L a n g u a g e s
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● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 4 J u l y 2 0 2 4 , a t 1 3 : 3 8 ( U T C ) . ● C o n t e n t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r C C B Y - S A 4 . 0 u n l e s s o t h e r w i s e n o t e d . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● T e r m s o f U s e ● D e s k t o p
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