ㄇ

See also: 冂 [U+5182 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5182], 冖 [U+5196 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5196], Π [U+03A0 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI], π [U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI], ㅠ [U+3160 HANGUL LETTER YU], and ㆬ [U+31AC BOPOMOFO LETTER IM]

ㄇ U+3107, ㄇ BOPOMOFO LETTER M ← ㄆ [U+3106] Bopomofo ㄈ → [U+3108]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄇ

1. type: initial consonant
2. general transliteration: m
3. keyboard key: A

Descendants

• ㆬ,

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from 冂 (jiōng), the archaic character and current "cover" radical 冖 (mì) (Mandarin: mì).

Etymology 1

Initial consonant derived from "cover" radical 冖 (mì) (Mandarin: mì) + rhyme.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mō, mē (mo¹, me¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛ, ㄇㄜ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mō
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mo
    • Wade–Giles: mo¹
    • Yale: mwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mho
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: me
    • Wade–Giles: mê¹
    • Yale: mē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhe
    • Palladius: мэ (mɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤ⁵⁵/

Letter

1. 3rd letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 4th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) sound IPA^(key): /m/ (Pinyin: m), which is commonly present in Chinese
2. (when used in a syllable without a rhyme) used as a modern alternative to (simplification of) ㆬ, representing the sound /m̩/, transliterating characters such as 嘸, 呒, 唔, and 呣.

   alt. forms: ㆬ

Etymology 2

Simplified from 嗎／吗 / 吗, typing only ㄇ instead of the full character pronunciation on Zhuyin keyboards.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of ㄇ – see 嗎. (This character is an Internet slang variant form of 嗎).

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 3rd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound /m/ (Hutton): m

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198