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Thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet

M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of several Western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em, plural ems. Wikipedia →

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Letter The thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the voiced bilabial nasal (/m/), including Cyrillic м, the beginning of various kana including ま (ma), and Korean jamo ㅁ (mieum).

Symbol light to full [m]-prenasalization, [m]-release or light post-nasalization, [m]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [m].

Symbol metre, the basic unit of length in the International System of Units

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