Mo (kana)

Summary

, 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
japanese hiragana mo
katakana
japanese katakana mo
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
もう, もぅ
もお, もぉ
もー
モウ, モゥ
モオ, モォ
モー

Stroke order edit

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

Other communicative representations edit

  • 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 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 edit

  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.