# Mu (kana)

kana gojūon :
| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| wi | ri | (yi) | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| (wu) | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | (ye) | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |
Kana modifiers and marks :
sokuonfu (gemination)
yōon (palatalization)
chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
Iteration marks
dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :
Multi-moraic kana :
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori :
vte :
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 [mɯ].
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 |
| Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō) | muu, mwu mū | むう, むぅ むー | ムウ, ムゥ ムー |
Other additional forms :
Form (mw-) :
| Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
| mwa | 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

| 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 | Other kana based on Braille む |
| む / ム mu | むう / ムー mū | みゅ / ミュ myu | みゅう / ミュー myū |
* Character encodings
Character information :
| Preview | む | む | ム | ム | ﾑ | ﾑ | ㇺ | ㇺ | ㋰ | ㋰ |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MU | HIRAGANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER MU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU | CIRCLED KATAKANA MU | CIRCLED KATAKANA MU |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12416 | U+3080 | 12512 | U+30E0 | 65425 | U+FF91 | 12794 | U+31FA | 13040 | U+32F0 |
| 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 | 227 139 176 | E3 8B B0 |
| Numeric character reference | &#12416; | &#x3080; | &#12512; | &#x30E0; | &#65425; | &#xFF91; | &#12794; | &#x31FA; | &#13040; | &#x32F0; |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | | | | |
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 222 | 82 DE | 131 128 | 83 80 | 209 | D1 | 131 247 | 83 F7 | | |
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 | | | | |
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 142 209 | 8E D1 | 166 249 | A6 F9 | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 224 | A4 E0 | 165 224 | A5 E0 | 132 49 154 53 | 84 31 9A 35 | 129 57 189 52 | 81 39 BD 34 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 224 | AA E0 | 171 224 | AB E0 | | | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 228 | C6 E4 | 199 120 | C7 78 | | | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 103 | C7 67 | 199 220 | C7 DC | | | | | | |