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Dictionary: m¹ or M (ĕm) pronunciation

n., pl., m's, or M's, also ms or Ms.

The 13th letter of the modern English alphabet.
Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter m.
The 13th in a series.
Something shaped like the letter M.

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The thirteenth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by muin [vine] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland.

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M, 13th letter of the alphabet, usually representing a bilabial nasal as in the English much. It corresponds with the Greek mu. M is the Roman numeral for 1,000.

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Symbol, meter; symbol milli-.

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For other uses of "M", see M (disambiguation).

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Basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd
Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh
Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn
Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt
Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛm/) is spelled em.^[1]

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2 Codes for computing
3 See also
4 References

History

The letter M derives its shape from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for "water" that was first used for an alveolar nasal (/n/, because of the Egyptian word for water, "n-t". This same symbol became used for M in Semitic, because their word for water began with that sound.

Egyptian hieroglyph "N"

Proto-Semitic M

Phoenician
mem

Etruscan M

Greek
mu

Roman M

The letter M represents the bilabial consonant sound, IPA: [m], in Classical languages as well as the modern languages. The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that 'm' is sometimes a vowel in words like spasm and in the suffix -ism. In modern terminology, this would be described as a syllabic consonant — IPA [m̩].

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Alternative representations of M

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Mike	––


Signal flag	Flag semaphore	Braille

In Unicode the capital M is codepoint U+004D and the lower case m is U+006D.

The ASCII code for capital M is 77 and for lowercase m is 109; or in binary 01001101 and 01101101, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital M is 212 and for lowercase m is 148.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "M" and "m" for upper and lower case respectively.

References

^ "M" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "em," op. cit.

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter M with diacritics ḾḿṀṁṂṃᵯᶆⱮɱ history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - m (13. bogstav i alfabetet)

2.
symb. - milli-, meter, minut
abbr. - gift (married), maskulin, måned

Nederlands (Dutch)
man(nelijk), 1000, getrouwd, meter, minuten, mijl, mevrouw, mijnheer, mark, Mr, maand, morgen, Mach (snelheid), maart, mei, miljoen

Français (French)
1.
n. - M, m (lettre), (Phon) consonne nasale bilabiale, Monsieur

2.
symb. - (symb) de mètre(s), mile(s), milli-, minute(s)
abbr. - (abrév = motorway) autoroute, (abrév = maiden over) (Cricket) partie d'un match où aucun point n'est marqué, (abrév) de mâle, jument, million, marié(e), masculin, médicament, méridien, mois

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - (informell) Madame

2.
symb. - Milli-, Mega-, (Chem.) Molar-, (Phys.) Masse
abbr. - Monsieur, männlich, verheiratet, Meter, Millionen, Minuten, Meilen, Autobahn

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - το δωδέκατο γράμμα του αγγλικού αλφαβήτου
symb. - μεγα-
abbr. - μέτρο, μίλι, (γαλλ.) κύριος, αυτοκινητόδρομος, αρσενικός, έγγαμος, χιλιοστό
pref. - μετα-

Italiano (Italian)
M, metro, milione, molare, Signor, maschile, maschio, miglia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - eme (a letra)
symb. - m
abbr. - Mega, metro, minuto, milha

Русский (Russian)
обозначение автострады, нечто, имеющее форму буквы М

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - decimotercera letra del alfabeto inglés

2.
symb. - metro, minuto, masculino, talla mediana, millas, fuerza del polo magnético, mil (números romanos)
abbr. - millón, (quím.) molar, máquina, mayor, casado, medieval, medio, modificador, indicador de autopista

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - symb.
abbr. - male, married, masculine, metre(s), mile(s), million(s), minute(s)
pref. - milli-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
英语字母M, 米, 公尺, 表示...的儿子

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 英語字母M
symb. - 英語字母M
abbr. - 米, 公尺
pref. - 表示...的兒子

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 영어 알파벳 열 셋째 자음

2.
symb. - mass(물리학에서의 무게)
abbr. - Medieval(중세), medium(중간), meters(미터법)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - エム, M字形のもの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الحرف الأبجدي الثالث عشر (علامه) الرقم ألف (روماني), المغناطيس (اختصار) مختصر : متر, كتله, وسيط, مذكر, دقيقه, متزوج, شهر (بادئه الكلمه) يبن تسلسل انتاج مثلا م 1 او 2 الخ (معدات عسكريه عادة)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מיסייה (אדון בצרפתית)‬
symb. - ‮מטר, אלפית, אלף (לטינית), דקה, מיליון, מייל, מגה (מיליון)‬
abbr. - ‮זכר, מולארי (כימיה), מסה‬

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