U+1E3E "Ḿ" Latin Capital Letter M with Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ḿ
U+1E3E "Ḿ" Latin Capital Letter M with Acute is a modified version of the standard Latin capital letter M, distinguished by an acute accent placed directly above it. This character is primarily used in certain transliteration systems and orthographies for languages that require marking stress or tonal distinctions on the letter M, such as in some African or Slavic linguistic contexts. It allows for precise phonetic representation where the acute diacritic indicates a high or rising tone or stress on the consonant sound. As part of the Latin Extended Additional block, this glyph supports specialized textual needs beyond basic Roman script, ensuring accurate rendering in digital text for scholarly and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E3E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter M with Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "M" U+004D Latin Capital Letter M "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ḿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ḿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB8 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1E3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001E3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1e3e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| Case Folding | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ḿ" U+1E3F Latin Small Letter M with Acute |
| 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 |