Mu (kana)
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む, in hiragana, or ム 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 [mɯ].
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"ム" redirects here. For the bopomofo, see ㄙ.
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transliteration | mu | ||
hiragana origin | 武 | ||
katakana origin | 牟 | ||
Man'yōgana | 牟 武 無 模 務 謀 六 | ||
spelling kana | 無線のム Musen no "mu" | ||
unicode | U+3080, U+30E0 | ||
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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 ん.
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.
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