U+041C "М" Cyrillic Capital Letter Em Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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