Mu (hiragana: む, katakana: ム) 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 .
In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalized . 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.
FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakanaNormal m-(ま行 ma-gyō)muむムmuu, mwumūむう, むぅむームウ, ムゥムー
Other additional forms+Form (mw-)RōmajiHiraganaKatakanamwaむぁ, むゎムァ, ムヮmwiむぃムィ(mwu)(むぅ)(ムゥ)mweむぇムェmwoむぉムォ
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
Braille forms 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
See also 厶 (Radical 28)
References