Katakana Letter Mo

Katakana Letter Mo at U+30E2 represents the Japanese mora “mo,” pronounced with an m consonant followed by an o vowel. It is a printable character in the Katakana block, used as part of Japan’s angular syllabary rather than as an alphabetic letter standing for a single consonant or vowel. In everyday Japanese writing, it appears in katakana words such as モデル for “model,” モーター for “motor,” and メモ for “memo.” Katakana is especially common for loanwords, foreign names, brand names, technical terms, sound effects, and emphasis, so this character is often seen in product labels, menus, advertisements, games, and user interfaces. It also appears in language-learning materials and dictionaries when teaching the katakana row マ, ミ, ム, メ, モ. In romanization it is written “mo,” and it corresponds in sound to the hiragana も, though the two are used in different writing contexts.