M - wikipedia This article is about the letter of the Roman alphabet. For the letter of the Cyrillic script ( М, м ), see Em ( Cyrillic ). For other uses, see M ( disambiguation ). For technical reasons, `` M # '' redirects here. For the programming language, see M Sharp. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2016 ) M m ( See below ) Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic and Logographic Language of origin Latin language Phonetic usage ( m ) ( ɱ ) ( n ) ( n̼ ) / ɛm / Unicode value U + 004D, U + 006D Alphabetical position 13 Numerical value : 1000 History Development Μ μ 𐌌 M m Time period ~ - 700 to present Descendants ₥ TM SM ᴟ ꬺ ꟽ ɯ ɰ ꟿ ᛗ Sisters М Ӎ מ ם م ܡ מּ ם Ⰿ ࠌ 𐌼 Variations ( See below ) Other Other letters commonly used with m ( x ) Associated numbers 1000 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help : IPA. ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz M ( named em / ɛm / ) is the thirteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Contents 1 History 2 Use in writing systems 3 Other uses 4 Related characters 4.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet 4.2 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets 4.3 Ligatures and abbreviations 5 Computing codes 6 Other representations 7 References 8 External links History Egyptian hieroglyph `` n '' Phoenician Mem Etruscan M Greek Mu Roman M The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu ( Μ, μ ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a `` Proto - Sinaitic '' ( Bronze Age ) adoption of the `` water '' ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value / n /, from the Egyptian word for `` water '', nt ; the adoption as the Semitic letter for / m / was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for `` water '', * mā ( y ) -. Use in writing systems The letter ⟨ m ⟩ represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound ( m ) in the orthography of Latin as well as in that of many modern languages, and also in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In English, the Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) says that ⟨ m ⟩ is sometimes a vowel in words like spasm and in the suffix - ism. In modern terminology, this is described as a syllabic consonant ( IPA ( m̩ ) ). Other uses The Roman numeral M represents the number 1000, though it was not used in Roman times. There is, however, scant evidence that the letter was later introduced in the early centuries by the Romans. Related characters Descendants and related characters in the Latin Alphabet M with diacritics : Ḿ ḿ Ṁ ṁ Ṃ ṃ M̃ m̃ ᵯ IPA - specific symbols related to M : ɱ ɰ Ɱ : Capital M with hook Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - specific symbols related to M : U + 1D0D ᴍ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL M U + 1D1F ᴟ LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS TURNED M U + 1D39 M MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL M U + 1D50 m MODIFIER LETTER SMALL M U + 1D5A ɯ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M Some symbols related to M were used by the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902 : U + 2098 m LATIN SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER M U + A7FA ꟺ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M The Teuthonista phonetic transcription system uses U + AB3A ꬺ LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH CROSSED - TAIL Other variations used for phonetic transcription : ᶆ ɱ ɰ Ɯ ɯ : Turned M ꟽ : Inverted M was used in ancient Roman texts to stand for mulier ( woman ) ꟿ : Archaic M was used in ancient Roman texts to abbreviate the personal name ' Manius ' ( A regular capital M was used for the more common personal name ' Marcus ' ) M : currency symbol for Mark Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets 𐤌 : Semitic letter Mem, from which the following symbols originally derive Μ μ : Greek letter Mu, from which M derives Ⲙ ⲙ : Coptic letter Me, which derives from Greek Mu М м : Cyrillic letter Em, also derived from Mu 𐌌 : Old Italic M, which derives from Greek Mu, and is the ancestor of modern Latin M ᛗ : Runic letter Mannaz, which derives from old Italic M 𐌼 : Gothic letter manna, which derives from Greek Mu Ligatures and abbreviations ₥ : Mill ( currency ) TM : Trademark symbol SM : Service mark symbol Computing codes Character m Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M LATIN SMALL LETTER M Encodings decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 77 U + 004D 109 U + 006D UTF - 8 77 4D 109 6D Numeric character reference & # 77 ; & # x4D ; & # 109 ; & # x6D ; EBCDIC family 212 D4 148 94 ASCII 77 4D 109 6D Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO - 8859 and Macintosh families of encodings. Other representations NATO phonetic Morse code Mike -- -- Signal flag Flag semaphore American manual alphabet ( ASL fingerspelling ) Braille dots - 134 References Jump up ^ `` M '' Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition ( 1989 ) ; Merriam - Webster 's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged ( 1993 ) ; `` em, '' op. cit. Jump up ^ See F. Simons, `` Proto - Sinaitic -- Progenitor of the Alphabet '' Rosetta 9 ( 2011 ) : Figure Two : `` Representative selection of proto - Sinaitic characters with comparison to Egyptian hieroglyphs '', ( p. 38 ) Figure Three : `` Chart of all early proto - Canaanite letters with comparison to proto - Sinaitic signs '' ( p. 39 ), Figure Four : `` Representative selection of later proto - Canaanite letters with comparison to early proto - Canaanite and proto - Sinaitic signs '' ( p. 40 ). See also : Goldwasser ( 2010 ), following Albright ( 1966 ), `` Schematic Table of Proto - Sinaitic Characters '' ( fig. 1 ). Jump up ^ Gordon, Arthur E. ( 1983 ). Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy. University of California Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780520038981. Retrieved 3 October 2015. Jump up ^ Constable, Peter ( 2003 - 09 - 30 ). `` L2 / 03 - 174R2 : Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ Everson, Michael ; et al. ( 2002 - 03 - 20 ). `` L2 / 02 - 141 : Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ Ruppel, Klaas ; Aalto, Tero ; Everson, Michael ( 2009 - 01 - 27 ). `` L2 / 09 - 028 : Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ Everson, Michael ; Dicklberger, Alois ; Pentzlin, Karl ; Wandl - Vogt, Eveline ( 2011 - 06 - 02 ). `` L2 / 11 - 202 : Revised proposal to encode `` Teuthonista '' phonetic characters in the UCS '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ Constable, Peter ( 2004 - 04 - 19 ). `` L2 / 04 - 132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS '' ( PDF ). ^ Jump up to : Perry, David J. ( 2006 - 08 - 01 ). `` L2 / 06 - 269 : Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS '' ( PDF ). External links Media related to M at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of M at Wiktionary The dictionary definition of m at Wiktionary Latin script History Spread Romanization Roman numerals Alphabets ( list ) Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet Letters ( list ) Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Letter M with diacritics Ḿḿ M̋m̋ Ṁṁ Ṃṃ M̃m̃ ᵯ ᶆ Ɱɱ ꬺ Multigraphs Digraphs ch cz dž dz gh ij ll ly nh ny sh sz th Trigraphs dzs eau Tetragraphs ough Pentagraphs tzsch Keyboard layouts ( list ) QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY Dvorak Colemak Standards ISO / IEC 646 Unicode Western Latin character sets Lists precomposed Latin characters in Unicode letters used in mathematics Diacritics Palaeography Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M&oldid=833555056 '' Categories : Graphemes ISO basic Latin letters Hidden categories : Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages Wikipedia indefinitely move - protected pages Articles needing additional references from March 2016 All articles needing additional references Talk View source Contents About Wikipedia Acèh Afrikaans Alemannisch አማርኛ Aragonés ܐܪܡܝܐ Asturianu Avañe'ẽ Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه Bân - lâm - gú Беларуская Беларуская ( тарашкевіца ) ‎ Български Bosanski Brezhoneg Català Чӑвашла Čeština Corsu Cymraeg Dansk Davvisámegiella Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Føroyskt Français Frysk Furlan Gaeilge Gaelg Gàidhlig Galego 贛 語 Хальмг 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Ido Ilokano Bahasa Indonesia Íslenska Italiano עברית ქართული Kaszëbsczi Kernowek Kiswahili Коми Kreyòl ayisyen Kurdî Latina Latviešu Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Magyar Македонски मराठी Bahasa Melayu Mìng - dĕ̤ng - ngṳ̄ မြန်မာဘာသာ Nāhuatl Nederlands 日本 語 Nordfriisk Norsk Norsk nynorsk Nouormand Occitan Олык марий Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Português Română Runa Simi Русский Scots Seeltersk Sicilianu Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Sranantongo Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Basa Sunda Suomi Svenska Tagalog Татарча / tatarça ไทย Türkçe Українська اردو Vèneto Vepsän kel ' Tiếng Việt Volapük Winaray ייִדיש Yorùbá 粵語 Zazaki Žemaitėška 中文 103 more Edit links This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 08 : 56. 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Question: what is the thirteenth letter in the alphabet
Answer: M