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The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known[dubious – discuss] 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 the word for water began with that sound.
Egyptian hieroglyph "N"
Phoenician
mem
Etruscan M
Greek
mu
Roman M
The letter ⟨m⟩ represents the bilabial consonant sound, [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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character
M
m
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
LATIN SMALL LETTER M
character encoding
decimal
hex
decimal
hex
Unicode
77
004D
109
006D
UTF-8
77
4D
109
6D
Numeric character reference
M
M
m
m
EBCDIC family
212
D4
148
94
ASCII 1
77
4D
109
6D
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
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^ "M" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "em," op. cit.
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