# Mi (cuneiform)

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The [cuneiform](/source/Cuneiform) **mi**, (also **mé**) sign is a distinctive sign in the wedge-stroke group, and is used as a syllabic for *mi*, *me*, and an alphabetic for *m*, *i*, or *e*; it is also a [Sumerogram](/source/Sumerogram) (capital letter ([majuscule](/source/Majuscule))) for **MI**, used for [Akkadian language](/source/Akkadian_language), "mūšu",[1] *night*. *MI*, in the *Epic of Gilgamesh,* is used in (Chapters) Tablets I, II, III, and XII as either MI, or MI.[MEŠ](/source/Me%C5%A1_(cuneiform)), a total of six times; other spellings of *mūšu* in other sections are alphabetic/syllabic, four times.[1]

The sign can be found in the *[Epic of Gilgamesh](/source/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)* and the mid-14th century BC [Amarna letters](/source/Amarna_letters). The signs usage in the Epic is as follows: *mé*-(1 time), *mi*-(126), MI-(9).[2]

## Partial list of signs beginning with wedge (u)

Partial list of signs beginning with (wedge)-*u*, from the *Epic of Gilgamesh* (Parpola, 1971), and the Amarna letters:

- Cuneiform-**u**--Sign No. **1**----(conjunction use, and "10"; occasionally for *u*)
- Cuneiform-**[AMAR](/source/AMAR_(cuneiform))**, **[ṣur](/source/%E1%B9%A2ur_(cuneiform))**, **[zur](/source/Zur_(cuneiform))**--Sign No. **2**---; [Sumerogram](/source/Sumerogram): '**[See!](/source/AMAR_(am%C4%81ru_Sumerogram))**-(*AMAR*) (Akkadian, "**amāru**")-(*Note: minus the vertical stroke*)
- Cuneiform-**[di](/source/Di_(cuneiform))**--Sign No. **3**---
- Cuneiform-**[ki](/source/Ki_(cuneiform))**--Sign No. **4**---
- Cuneiform-**mi**--Sign No. **5**---
- Cuneiform-**[ši](/source/%C5%A0i_(cuneiform))**, **[lim](/source/Lim_(cuneiform))**, or **IGI** ("in 'face' of", "before" [Sumerogram](/source/Sumerogram))--Sign No. **6**-----(**Abdi-Ashirta**), Abdi-[A](/source/A_(cuneiform))-**[Ši](/source/%C5%A0i_(cuneiform))**-[iR](/source/Ir_(cuneiform))-[Ta](/source/Ta_(cuneiform)), (wedge-sign, 4th sign)
- Cuneiform-**u**--Sign No. **u-1**---
- Cuneiform-**[ú](/source/%C3%9A_(cuneiform))**--Sign No. **u-2**----(approximate: *only 3 verticals* for **ú**, (the common **alphabetic u**))
- Cuneiform-**[Ù](/source/%C3%99_(cuneiform))**-(**u-3**)--Sign No. **7**--- - (With an added horizontal, , after the left vertical)

Also:

- Cuneiform-**[ar](/source/Ar_(cuneiform))**, ([Shuw](/source/Shuwardata)**[ar](/source/Shuwardata)**[data](/source/Shuwardata) of [Amarna letter EA 282](/source/Amarna_letter_EA_282))
- Cuneiform-**[nim](/source/Nim_(cuneiform))**-(*nem, nim, num*, and [Sumerograms](/source/Sumerogram) NIM, NUM) ([EA 34](/source/Amarna_letter_EA_34))

## References

1. Parpola, 1971. *The Standard Babylonian [Epic of Gilgamesh](/source/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)*, Glossary, pp. 119-145, **mūšu**, p. 133.

1. Parpola, 1971. *The Standard Babylonian [Epic of Gilgamesh](/source/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)*, Sign List, pp. 155-165, no. 427, p. 163.

- [Moran, William L.](/source/William_L._Moran) 1987, 1992. *The Amarna Letters.* Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. 393 pages.(softcover, ISBN 0-8018-6715-0)
- Parpola, 1971. *The Standard Babylonian [Epic of Gilgamesh](/source/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)*, [Parpola, Simo](/source/Simo_Parpola), [Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project](/source/Neo-Assyrian_Text_Corpus_Project), c 1997, Tablet I thru Tablet XII, Index of Names, Sign List, and Glossary-(pp. 119–145), 165 pages.

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