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Letter 'm' is a consonant. In Japanese the only consonant is 'n'. The rest of the characters are 'syllables'. They are made of merging a consonant with each of the five vowels (a, i, u, e, o) creating that letter's 5-character group. In case of 'M' it would be:

ま (ma) み (mi) む (mu) め (me) も (mo) in hiragana and マ (ma) ミ (mi) ム (mu) メ (me) モ (mo) in katakana.

The letter 'M' itself is called エム /e mu/ in Japanese. It is pronounced /em/ at the end of which 'm' is consonant, so it turns to 'mu' => 'emu', to be pronounceable for the Japanese.

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