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Mo (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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].
モー is sometimes used as the onomatopoeia for cows.
01Other 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 | ||
| 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 | 130 224 | 82 E0 | 131 130 | 83 82 | 211 | D3 | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 226 | A4 E2 | 165 226 | A5 E2 | 142 211 | 8E D3 | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 226 | A4 E2 | 165 226 | A5 E2 | 132 49 154 55 | 84 31 9A 37 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 226 | AA E2 | 171 226 | AB E2 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 230 | C6 E6 | 199 122 | C7 7A | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 105 | C7 69 | 199 222 | C7 DE | ||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana も stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana モ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- も-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- モ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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