Mu (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Mu (hiragana: む, katakana: ム) 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 [mɯ].
In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalized [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん.
In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound. This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 無線のム Musen no "Mu" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-13456 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| む / ム in Japanese Braille | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Preview | む | ム | ﾑ | ㇺ | ㋰ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER MU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU | CIRCLED KATAKANA MU | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12416 | U+3080 | 12512 | U+30E0 | 65425 | U+FF91 | 12794 | U+31FA | 13040 | U+32F0 |
| 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 | 227 139 176 | E3 8B B0 |
| Numeric character reference | む | む | ム | ム | ﾑ | ﾑ | ㇺ | ㇺ | ㋰ | ㋰ |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | 131 247 | 83 F7 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 | 166 249 | A6 F9 | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 132 49 154 53 | 84 31 9A 35 | 129 57 189 52 | 81 39 BD 34 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 224 | AA E0 | 171 224 | AB E0 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 228 | C6 E4 | 199 120 | C7 78 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 103 | C7 67 | 199 220 | C7 DC | ||||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana む stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ム stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- む-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ム-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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