U+004D "M" Latin Capital Letter M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+004D "M" Latin Capital Letter M is a fundamental character in the Latin alphabet, representing the uppercase form of the thirteenth letter. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block, also known as ASCII, where it holds the decimal value 77 and the binary value 01001101. This character is visually shaped with two vertical strokes meeting at a point at the bottom, a design derived from the Phoenician letter mem, which represented water. In written English, it is used primarily as a capital letter at the start of proper nouns and sentences, and it also serves as a Roman numeral for one thousand.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+004D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter M |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | M |
| HTML Hex Encoding | M |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x4D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x004D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000004D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u004d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| Lowercase Code Point | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| Simple Case Folding | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| Case Folding | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |