U+041C "М" Cyrillic Capital Letter Em Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

М

U+041C "М" Cyrillic Capital Letter Em is a visually distinctive letter that appears identical to the Latin capital letter "M" but represents a different sound and belongs to the Cyrillic script, where it denotes the phoneme /m/. It is the fourteenth letter in the standard Russian alphabet and is widely used across various Slavic and non Slavic languages that employ Cyrillic writing, including Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, and many languages of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. The character's design is derived from the Greek uppercase letter mu (Μ), reflecting the historical influence of Greek on the development of the Cyrillic script by Saints Cyril and Methodius. In digital contexts, it has a Unicode code point of U+041C, a UTF 8 encoding of D0 9C, and takes the uppercase form that can be paired with its lowercase equivalent, у+043C "м". This letter remains fundamental to written communication in scores of languages, serving as a consistent visual and phonetic marker across div

General Properties

Code Point U+041C
Version Added 1.1
Name Cyrillic Capital Letter Em
Block Cyrillic
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding М
HTML Hex Encoding М
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD0 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x041C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000041C
C/C++/Java Escape \u041c

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 Ambiguous
Uppercase Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Lowercase Code Point "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Simple Case Folding "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Case Folding "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When Lowercased Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
NFKC Simple Casefold "м" U+043C Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Script Cyrillic
Script Extensions Cyrillic
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