Mu (kana)

mu
hiragana katakana
transliteration	mu
hiragana origin	武
katakana origin	牟
spelling kana	無線のム Musen no "mu"
unicode	U+3080, U+30E0
braille

む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent [mu͍].

In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん.

In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound. This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	mu	む	ム
	muu mū	むう, むぅ むー	ムウ, ムゥ ムー

Other additional forms
Form (mw-) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana mwa むぁ ムァ mwi むぃ ムィ (mwu) (むぅ) (ムゥ) mwe むぇ ムェ mwo むぉ ムォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing む

Stroke order in writing ム

Stroke order in writing む

Stroke order in writing ム

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
無線のム Musen no "Mu"

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-13456 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

む / ム in Japanese Braille
む / ム mu	むう / ムー mū	Other kana based on Braille む
		みゅ / ミュ myu	みゅう / ミュー myū

• Character encodings

Character information

Preview	む		ム		ﾑ		ㇺ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MU		KATAKANA LETTER MU		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12416	U+3080	12512	U+30E0	65425	U+FF91	12794	U+31FA
UTF-8	227 130 128	E3 82 80	227 131 160	E3 83 A0	239 190 145	EF BE 91	227 135 186	E3 87 BA
Numeric character reference	む	む	ム	ム	ﾑ	ﾑ	ㇺ	ㇺ
Shift JIS	130 222	82 DE	131 128	83 80	209	D1

See also

• 厶 (Radical 28)