Men (Armenian letter)

Men
Մ մ
Usage
Writing systemArmenian script
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originArmenian language
Sound valuesm
In UnicodeU+0544, U+0574
Alphabetical position20
History
Time period405 to present
Other
Associated numbers200

Men (majuscule: Մ; minuscule: մ; Armenian: մեն) is the twentieth letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the bilabial nasal (/m/) in both Eastern and Western Armenian. It is typically romanized with the letter M.[1] It was part of the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE. In the Armenian numeral system, it has a value of 200.[2]

Various historic fonts

Character codes

Character information
Preview Մ մ
Unicode name ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER MEN ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER MEN
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1348 U+0544 1396 U+0574
UTF-8 213 132 D5 84 213 180 D5 B4
Numeric character reference Մ Մ մ մ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Transliteration of Armenian" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Numbers in Eastern Armenian". Omniglot.com.
  • Մ on Wiktionary
  • մ on Wiktionary
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.