M

History

Use in writing systems

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 A.D. by the Romans.
• Unit prefix M, meaning one million times, and m meaning one-thousandth.
• m is the standard abbreviation for metre in the International System of Units. However, m is also used as an abbreviation for mile.
• With money amounts, m means one million: $5m is five million dollars.
• M often represents male or masculine, especially in conjunction with F for female or feminine.
• M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series
• In typography, an em dash is a punctuation symbol whose width is equal to that of a capital letter M.

  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 : Capital M with hook
• Uralic Phonetic Alphabet-specific symbols related to M:
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• Some symbols related to M were used by the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902:
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• The Teuthonista phonetic transcription system uses
• 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
• ꟿ : Archaic M was used in ancient Roman texts to abbreviate the personal name 'Manius'
• ℳ : currency symbol for Mark

  Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets

• ? : Semitic letter Mem, from which the following symbols originally derive
• *Μ μ : Greek letter Mu, from which M derives
• ** : Coptic letter Me, which derives from Greek Mu
• **М м : Cyrillic letter Em, also derived from Mu
• **? : Old Italic M, which derives from Greek Mu, and is the ancestor of modern Latin M
• *** : Runic letter Mannaz, which derives from old Italic M
• ** : Gothic letter manna, which derives from Greek Mu

  Ligatures and abbreviations

• ₥ : Mill
• ™ : Trademark symbol
• ℠ : Service mark symbol

  Computing codes

Other representations