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ممیم
meem · /m/
Letter 31 of 38
Mimi the mascot, smiling

Starts with this letter

ماںmother
مکتبschool
محبتlove
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Trace the whole letter

Draw a small closed loop at the baseline, then a tail dropping straight down below the line.

Mimi the mascot, thinking
For parents

م carries /m/ and appears in fundamental words: ماں (mother), محبت (love), مدد (madad, help). The first word a Pakistani child speaks is often 'ammi' or 'maa' , and the first letter she will recognise is often م. The shape is small but the meaning weight is large. The four position variants differ noticeably: isolated has the descending tail, medial has neither tail nor closing flourish. Stroke timings approximate.

The first letter of ماں is the first letter many Pakistani children write. Name the weight of that first.