Mo (kana)

, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in three strokes and both represent [mo].

mo
hiragana
katakana
transliterationmo
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana毛 畝 蒙 木 問 聞 方 面 忘 母 文 茂 記 勿 物 望 門 喪 裳 藻
spelling kanaもみじのモ Momiji no "mo"
unicodeU+3082, U+30E2
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

モー is sometimes used as the onomatopoeia for cows.[1]

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
mo
mou
moo
, moh
もう, もぅ
もお, もぉ
もー
モウ, モゥ
モオ, モォ
モー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing も
Stroke order in writing モ
Stroke order in writing も
Stroke order in writing モ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
も / モ in Japanese Braille
も / モ
mo
もう / モー
Other kana based on Braille
みょ / ミョ
myo
みょう / ミョー
myō
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER MOKATAKANA LETTER MOHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MOCIRCLED KATAKANA MO
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12418U+308212514U+30E265427U+FF9313042U+32F2
UTF-8227 130 130E3 82 82227 131 162E3 83 A2239 190 147EF BE 93227 139 178E3 8B B2
Numeric character referenceももモモモモ㋲㋲
Shift JIS[2]130 22482 E0131 13083 82211D3
EUC-JP[3]164 226A4 E2165 226A5 E2142 2118E D3
GB 18030[4]164 226A4 E2165 226A5 E2132 49 154 5584 31 9A 37
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 226AA E2171 226AB E2
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 230C6 E6199 122C7 7A
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8]199 105C7 69199 222C7 DE

References

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