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

type: initial consonant
general transliteration: m
keyboard key: A

Descendants

ㆬ,

Chinese

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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

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

3rd letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
4th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

(general) sound IPA^(key): /m/
^help (Pinyin: m), which is commonly present in Chinese
(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

3rd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

sound /m/ (Hutton): m

References

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