Mo (kana)

mo
hiragana
japanese hiragana mo		 katakana
japanese katakana mo
transliterationmo
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"
unicodeU+3082, U+30E2
braille⠾
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
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Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic 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].

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 も
Stroke order in writing モ
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
mō		 Other kana based on Braille も
みょ / ミョ
myo		 みょう / ミョー
myō
⠾ (braille pattern dots-23456) ⠾ (braille pattern dots-23456)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠾ (braille pattern dots-23456) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠾ (braille pattern dots-23456)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
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

References

  1. ^ "モー". Longman Dictionary. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  2. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  5. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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