Mo (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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Mo (hiragana: も, katakana: モ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in three strokes and both represent [mo].
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| Transliteration | mo | ||
| Hiragana origin | 毛 | ||
| Katakana origin | 毛 | ||
| 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" | ||
| Unicode | U+3082, U+30E2 | ||
| Braille |  | ||
| Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation | |||
モー is sometimes used as the onomatopoeia for cows.[1]
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| もみじのモ Momiji no "Mo" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-23456 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| も / モ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| も / モ mo | もう / モー mō | Other kana based on Braille も | |
| みょ / ミョ myo | みょう / ミョー myō | ||
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| Preview | も | モ | ﾓ | ㋲ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MO | KATAKANA LETTER MO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MO | CIRCLED KATAKANA MO | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12418 | U+3082 | 12514 | U+30E2 | 65427 | U+FF93 | 13042 | U+32F2 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 130 | E3 82 82 | 227 131 162 | E3 83 A2 | 239 190 147 | EF BE 93 | 227 139 178 | E3 8B B2 |
| Numeric character reference | も | も | モ | モ | ﾓ | ﾓ | ㋲ | ㋲ |
| Shift JIS[2] | 130 224 | 82 E0 | 131 130 | 83 82 | 211 | D3 | ||
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 226 | A4 E2 | 165 226 | A5 E2 | 142 211 | 8E D3 | ||
| GB 18030[4] | 164 226 | A4 E2 | 165 226 | A5 E2 | 132 49 154 55 | 84 31 9A 37 | ||
| EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] | 170 226 | AA E2 | 171 226 | AB E2 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 230 | C6 E6 | 199 122 | C7 7A | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] | 199 105 | C7 69 | 199 222 | C7 DE | ||||
