Cursive M

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The small m is the capital M at a smaller size, and the figures say how much smaller. Its tops are at the x-height and the capital's at the cap height, which is a rise of 0.51 against the capital's. Neither letter goes below the baseline. It shrinks less in width, to 0.76.

Capital M, three rounded tops

The capital M has three rounded tops in a row. All three are at the cap height, and under each one a slanted line comes down to the baseline.

A short hook leads into the left-hand top. The hook has a blunt tip well above the x-height, and it curls up and over from there.

The left and middle slanted lines stop on the baseline in blunt feet. The left-hand foot is as far left as the capital M goes. The right-hand slanted line bends at the baseline instead and swings up into a tail, which ends about a third of the way to the x-height.

The middle and right-hand tops are arches. Each one splits off from the slanted line beside it, just above the x-height. Nothing in the capital crosses or closes, and its point furthest right is on the right-hand arch, above the x-height.

Small m, three tops again

The small m is a row of three rounded tops as well. Each top touches the x-height and has a slanted line under it.

At the left a short hook rises from a blunt tip and bends over into the nearest top. That tip is where the small m reaches furthest left.

Two of the slanted lines have blunt feet on the baseline, and the arch to the right of each one splits off from it partway up. Only the right-hand slanted line has a tail. It rounds at the baseline and turns up to a tip, which is the point of the small m furthest right.

There is no loop in the small m, no crossing and no enclosed space.

Three tops, two feet and a tail at two sizes

One design at two sizes serves for the capital M and the small m. Each has three tops, two blunt feet and one upturned tail.

Where the m sits in cinnamon, impaired and smith

Cinnamon has the small m with an a on its left and an o on its right. In impaired the letters on either side are i and p, and in smith they are s and i.

Capital N and small n have one arch fewer

Both look-alikes on this page are forms of n: the capital N for the capital M, and the small n for the small m.

The capital M and the capital N are made of the same parts: a hook at the upper left, slanted lines down to the baseline, rounded arches at the cap height and a small upturned tail at the lower right. They differ in the count of arches. The capital M has two side by side, and the capital N has one.

The small letters repeat that. The small m and the small n both have a small hook at the upper left, arches that top out at the x-height and a short upturned tail at the end. The small m is the wider letter, with two arches where the small n has one.

• Capital N
• Small n

The capital M as text, SCRIPT CAPITAL M

SCRIPT CAPITAL M, U+2133, is the capital M of the Cursive style, and U+1D4C2, MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL M, is its small m. Only the capital's character belongs to the Letterlike Symbols block.