| Hiragana Image: | Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_HO.svg |
| Katakana Image: | Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_HO.svg |
| Transliteration: | ho |
| Hiragana Manyogana: | 保 |
| Katakana Manyogana: | 保 |
| Other Manyogana: | 凡 方 抱 朋 倍 保 宝 富 百 帆 穂 本 |
| Dakuten Manyogana: | 煩 菩 番 蕃 |
| Unicode: | U+307B, U+30DB |
| Flag1: | 1 |
| Flag2: | 2 |
| Flag3: | 10 |
| Footnote: | This mora was historically pronounced as "po". |
| Spelling: | 保険のホ Hoken no "ho" |
ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in four strokes and both represent pronounced as /[ho]/. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal h- (ほ行 ha-gyō) | ho | ほ | ホ |
| hou hoo hō | ほう ほお, ほぉ ほー | ホウ ホオ, ホォ ホー | |
| Addition dakuten b- (ぼ行 ba-gyō) | bo | ぼ | ボ |
| bou boo bō | ぼう, ぼぅ ぼお, ぼぉ ぼー | ボウ, ボゥ ボオ, ボォ ボー | |
| Addition handakuten p- (ぽ行 pa-gyō) | po | ぽ | ポ |
| pou poo pō | ぽう, ぽぅ ぽお, ぽぉ ぽー | ポウ, ポゥ ポオ, ポォ ポー |
| ほ / ホ in Japanese Braille | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ほ / ホ ho | ぼ / ボ bo | ぽ / ポ po | ほう / ホー hō | ぼう / ボー bō | ぽう / ポー pō | Other kana based on Braille ほ | ||||||
| ひょ / ヒョ hyo | びょ / ビョ byo | ぴょ / ピョ pyo | ひょう / ヒョー hyō | びょう / ビョー byō | ぴょう / ピョー pyō | |||||||