フ

See also: ブ, プ, 乛, and ㇇

フ U+30D5, フ KATAKANA LETTER HU ← ピ [U+30D4] Katakana ブ → [U+30D6]

㋫ U+32EB, ㋫ CIRCLED KATAKANA HU ← ㋪ [U+32EA] Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㋬ → [U+32EC]

ﾌ U+FF8C, ﾌ HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HU ← ﾋ [U+FF8B] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ﾍ → [U+FF8D]

Ainu

Adjective

フ • (hu/fu)

1. raw, uncooked

   フアマㇺ ― fu amam ― raw rice, uncooked rice

2. green, living

   フニ ― fu ni ― green wood

References

• John Batchelor (1905), An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎, Tokyo; London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 133, available online here

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji 不.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟]

• Audio:

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Syllable

フ • (fu) 

1. The katakana syllable フ (fu). Its equivalent in hiragana is ふ (fu). It is the twenty-eighth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ハ行ウ段 (ha-gyō u-dan, “row ha, section u”).

Usage notes

The katakana syllabary is used primarily for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of gairaigo (loan words), as well as to represent onomatopoeias, technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. It is also occasionally used in some words for emphasis, or to ease reading; katakana may be preferred for words becoming buried in the text if they are written under their canonical form in hiragana. Names of Japanese companies, as well as certain Japanese language words such as colloquial terms, are also sometimes written in katakana rather than the other systems. Formerly, female first names would often be written in katakana.

See also

• (Katakana) 片仮名; アァ, イィ, ウゥヴ, エェ(𛀀), オォ, カヵガ, キギ, クグ, ケヶゲ, コゴ, サザ, シジ, スズ, セゼ, ソゾ, タダ, チヂ, ツッヅ, テデ, トド, ナ, ニ, ヌ, ネ, ノ, ハバパ, ヒビピ, フブプ, ヘベペ, ホボポ, マ, ミ, ム, メ, モ, ヤャ, 𛄠 (𛄠), ユュ, エ/𛄡 (𛄡), ヨョ, ララ゚, リリ゚, ルル゚, レレ゚, ロロ゚, ワヮヷ, ヰヸ, 𛄢 (𛄢), ヱヹ, ヲヺ, ン, ー, ヽ, ヾ