, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in four strokes, while the katakana in one. It represents the phoneme , although for phonological reasons (general scheme for group, whose only phonologic survivor to remaining is ふ: b<-p<--f-->h), the actual pronunciation is , which is why it is

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''fu'' in Hepburn romanization instead of ''hu'' (Korean 후 /hu/ creates the same phonetic effect as lips are projected when pronouncing "u"). Written with a dakuten (ぶ, ブ), they both represent a "bu" sound, and written with handakuten (ぷ, プ) they both represent a "pu" sound. The katakana フ is frequently combined with other vowels to represent sounds in foreign words. For example, the word "file" is written in Japanese as ファイル (fairu), with ファ representing a non-native sound, ''fa''. In certain Okinawan writing systems, ふ/フ can be written as ふぁ, ふぃ, ふぇ to make both ''fa'', ''fi'', and ''fe'' sounds as well as representing the sounds ''hwa'', ''hwi'', and ''hwe''. In the Ryukyu University system, fa/hwa is written using the ''wa'' kana instead, ふゎ/フヮ. In the

Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate ...

the katakana with a handakuten プ can be written as a small ㇷ゚ to represent a final p sound. In the Sakhalin dialect, フ without a handakuten can be written as small ㇷ to represent a final h sound after an ''u'' sound (ウㇷ ''uh'').

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

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