Mo (kana)

も, in hiragana, or モ 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
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]

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	mo	も	モ
	mou moo mō	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

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
もみじのモ Momiji no "Mo"	▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-23456 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

も / モ in Japanese Braille
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

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	も		モ		ﾓ		㋲
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