Mu (kana)

む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent [mu͍].

mu
hiragana katakana
transliteration	mu
hiragana origin	武
katakana origin	牟
Man'yōgana	牟 武 無 模 務 謀 六
spelling kana	無線のム Musen no "mu"
unicode	U+3080, U+30E0
braille

In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん.

In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound.[1] This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	mu	む	ム
	muu mū	むう, むぅ むー	ムウ, ムゥ ムー

Other additional forms
Form (mw-) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana mwa むぁ ムァ mwi むぃ ムィ (mwu) (むぅ) (ムゥ) mwe むぇ ムェ mwo むぉ ムォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing む

Stroke order in writing ム

Stroke order in writing む

Stroke order in writing ム

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
無線のム Musen no "Mu"	▄▄▄▄▄▄

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-13456 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

む / ム in Japanese Braille
む / ム mu	むう / ムー mū	Other kana based on Braille む
		みゅ / ミュ myu	みゅう / ミュー myū

• Character encodings

Character information

Preview	む		ム		ﾑ		ㇺ		㋰
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MU		KATAKANA LETTER MU		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU		CIRCLED KATAKANA MU
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12416	U+3080	12512	U+30E0	65425	U+FF91	12794	U+31FA	13040	U+32F0
UTF-8	227 130 128	E3 82 80	227 131 160	E3 83 A0	239 190 145	EF BE 91	227 135 186	E3 87 BA	227 139 176	E3 8B B0
Numeric character reference	む	む	ム	ム	ﾑ	ﾑ	ㇺ	ㇺ	㋰	㋰
Shift JIS (plain)[2]	130 222	82 DE	131 128	83 80	209	D1
Shift JIS-2004[3]	130 222	82 DE	131 128	83 80	209	D1	131 247	83 F7
EUC-JP (plain)[4]	164 224	A4 E0	165 224	A5 E0	142 209	8E D1
EUC-JIS-2004[5]	164 224	A4 E0	165 224	A5 E0	142 209	8E D1	166 249	A6 F9
GB 18030[6]	164 224	A4 E0	165 224	A5 E0	132 49 154 53	84 31 9A 35	129 57 189 52	81 39 BD 34
EUC-KR[7] / UHC[8]	170 224	AA E0	171 224	AB E0
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9]	198 228	C6 E4	199 120	C7 78
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[10]	199 103	C7 67	199 220	C7 DC

See also

• 厶 (Radical 28)

References

1. http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/katakana_phonetic_extensions.html
2. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
3. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
5. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
6. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
7. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
8. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
9. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
10. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.