Mo (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Transliteration	mo
Hiragana origin:	毛
Katakana origin:	毛
kana gojūon wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a sokuon wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i dakuten n ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u chōonpu we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o

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.

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

Other Representations

• Computer encodings

Character	も		モ		ﾓ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MO		KATAKANA LETTER MO		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MO
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12418	U+3082	12514	U+30E2	65427	U+FF93
UTF-8	227 130 130	E3 82 82	227 131 162	E3 83 A2	239 190 147	EF BE 93
Numeric character reference	も	も	モ	モ	ﾓ	ﾓ
Shift JIS	130 224	82 E0	131 130	83 82	211	D3

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