Mu (kana)
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| transliteration | mu | |||
| hiragana origin | 武 | |||
| katakana origin | 牟 | |||
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む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made with three strokes, they represent [mu͍]. The kanji 無, read "mu", represents "none", nothingness, or the state of oblivion upon death, if written alone.
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 mū |
むう, むぅ むー |
ムウ, ムゥ ムー |
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Stroke order
 Stroke order in writing む |
 Stroke order in writing ム |
Stroke order in writing む
Stroke order in writing ム
Other representations
| Character | む | ム | ﾑ | ㇺ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER MU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12416 | U+3080 | 12512 | U+30E0 | 65425 | U+FF91 | 12794 | U+31FA |
| 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 |
| Numeric character reference | む | む | ム | ム | ﾑ | ﾑ | ㇺ | ㇺ |
| Shift JIS | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | ||
- Braille
| む / ム in Japanese Braille | |||
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| 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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- Japanese semaphore
See also
- 厶 (Radical 28)
References
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Look up む or ム in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |