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( Mu (letter))
Mu (uppercase ?, lowercase µ; Greek ?? or ?? [mi]) is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water ( ) which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become Mem  . Letters that arose from Mu include the Roman M and the Cyrillic letter ?. The word Mu, pronounced /mu?/ or /mju?/ in English, is written µ? in traditional Greek polytonic orthography. In Modern Greek the ancient version is sometimes written µ?. In Modern Greek, the name of the letter is spelled µ? and is pronounced [mi]. The letter Mu appears in conjunction with alpha and omega to signify the "beginning, middle (meson) and end", a phrase found in an Orphic verse describing Zeus, and later adopted to describe both JHWH and Jesus.
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