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M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of several western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em (pronounced / ˈ ɛ m / ), plural ems .
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode .
Letters with ascenders are b d f h k l. A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. [7] Letters with descenders are g j p q y. An arching stroke is a shoulder as in the top of an R or sometimes just an arch, as in h n m. [4] A closed curved stroke is a bowl in b d o p q D O P Q; B has two bowls. A bowl with a flat end as in D P is a ...
The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, nineteen of which the Latin alphabet used, and the Greek alphabet, adapted c. 900 BCE, added four letters to those used in Phoenician. This Greek alphabet was the first to assign letters not only to consonant sounds, but also to vowels .
Latin Capital Letter M with acute U+1E3F ḿ Latin Small Letter M with acute U+1E40 Ṁ Latin Capital Letter M with dot above U+1E41 ṁ Latin Small Letter M with dot above U+1E42 Ṃ Latin Capital Letter M with dot below U+1E43 ṃ Latin Small Letter M with dot below U+1E44 Ṅ Latin Capital Letter N with dot above U+1E45 ṅ
Contemporary poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted by Hamburg, German artist Schleisinger, c. 1926, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.
Em (М м; italics: М м) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. [1] Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant /m/, like the pronunciation of m in "him". Common Glagolitic script is "Ⰿ and Ⱞ" It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).