Mīm
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ـم | ـمـ | مـ |
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Mīm ,ميم, is the 24th letter of the Arabic alphabet . It emerged from the Phoenician Mem and is thus related to the Latin M , the Greek My and the Hebrew Mem . The numerical value 40 is assigned to it.
Sound value and transcription
The Mim corresponds to the German M in "Martha". It is therefore reproduced with an "m" in the DMG inscription.
Mim in Unicode
Unicode codepoint | U + 0645 |
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Unicode name | ARABIC LETTER MEEM |
HTML | & # 1605; |
ISO 8859-6 | 0xe5 |