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M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ˈɛm/) is spelled em.[1]

Contents
* 1 History * 2 Codes for computing * 3 See also * 4 References

History
The letter M derives its shape m as in maggaoy from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for "water" that was first used for an alveolar nasal (/n/, because of the Egyptian word for water, "n-t". This same symbol became used for M in Semitic, because their word for water began with that sound. Egyptian hieroglyph "N" 	Proto-Semitic M 	Phoenician mem 	Etruscan M 	Greek mu 	Roman M n	Proto-semiticM-01.png 	PhoenicianM-01.png 	EtruscanM-01.svg 	Mu uc lc.svg 	Roman M

The letter M represents the bilabial consonant sound, IPA: [m], in Classical languages as well as the modern languages. 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 would be described as a syllabic consonant — IPA [m̩].

Codes for computing
Alternative representations of M NATO phonetic 	Morse code Mike 	–– ICS Mike.svg 	Semaphore Mike.svg 	⠍ Signal flag 	Flag semaphore 	Braille

In Unicode the capital M is codepoint U+004D and the lower case m is U+006D.

The ASCII code for capital M is 77 and for lowercase m is 109; or in binary 01001101 and 01101101, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital M is 212 and for lowercase m is 148.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "M" and "m" for upper and lower case respectively.