U+043C "м" Cyrillic Small Letter Em Unicode Character

U+043C "м" Cyrillic Small Letter Em is a letter used in the Cyrillic script, representing the consonant sound equivalent to the English "m." It is part of the basic Cyrillic alphabet and appears in languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, where it typically occupies the fourteenth position in the Russian alphabet. Visually, it resembles a lowercase Latin "m" but is often written with a more rounded, open top in typographic contexts. As a fundamental element of written Slavic languages, it is encoded in the Unicode block for Cyrillic, supporting digital text representation across modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+043C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cyrillic Small Letter Em
Block	Cyrillic
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	м
HTML Hex Encoding	м
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD0 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x043C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000043C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u043c

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
Lowercase	Yes
Simple Uppercase Code Point	"М" U+041C Cyrillic Capital Letter Em
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"М" U+041C Cyrillic Capital Letter Em
Uppercase Code Point	"М" U+041C Cyrillic Capital Letter Em
Titlecase Code Point	"М" U+041C Cyrillic Capital Letter Em
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Titlecased	Yes
Changes When Uppercased	Yes
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	Lower