| Hiragana Image: | Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_MU.svg |
| Katakana Image: | Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_MU.svg |
| Transliteration: | mu |
| Hiragana Manyogana: | 武 |
| Katakana Manyogana: | 牟 |
| Other Manyogana: | 牟 武 無 模 務 謀 六 |
| Unicode: | U+3080, U+30E0 |
| Flag1: | 7 |
| Flag2: | 5 |
| Spelling: | 無線のム Musen no "mu" |
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 pronounced as /[mɯ]/.
In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised pronounced as /[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.[1] 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 |
| muu, mwu mū | むう, むぅ むー | ムウ, ムゥ ムー |
| 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 | |||