Fu (kana)

fu
hiragana katakana
transliteration	fu
hiragana origin	不
katakana origin	不

ふ, in hiragana, or フ 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 /hu͍/, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɸu͍]^ⓘ, which is why it is romanized fu in Hepburn romanization instead of hu. 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 the Ainu language 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).

Forms	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal f- (は行 ha-gyō)	Fu	ふ	フ
	Fuu Fū	ふう	フウ フー
Addition dakuten b- (ば行 ba-gyō)	Bu	ぶ	ブ
	Buu Bū	ぶう	ブウ ブー
Addition handakuten p- (ぱ行 pa-gyō)	Pu	ぷ	プ
	Puu Pū	ぷう	プウ プー

Other additional forms
Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana Form 1 (F-) Fa ふぁ ファ Falcon (ファルコン Farukon) Fax (ファックス Fakkusu) Fi ふぃ フィ Finland (フィンランド Finrando) Fix (フィックス Fikkusu) Fe ふぇ フェ Felt (フェルト Feruto) Fed (フェド Fedo) Fo ふぉ フォ Ford (フォード Fōdo) Star Fox (スターフォックス Sutā Fokkusu) Fya ふゃ フャ Fiagdon River (フャグドン・リバー Fyagudon Ribā) Fyu ふゅ フュ Diffuser (ディフューザー Difyūzā) Fye ふぃぇ フィェ Fyo ふょ フョ Fyodor Dostoevsky (フョードル・ドストエフスキー Fyōdoru Dosutoefusukī)	Form 2 (Bw-) Romaji Hiragana Katakana Bwa ぶぁ ブァ ブァチュー Bwachū Bwatue Bwi ぶぃ ブィ ブィンディ Bwindi Bwindi Bwu ぶぅ ブゥ ブゥール Bwūru Bwool Bwe ぶぇ ブェ ブェイズ Bweizu Bwaise Bwo ぶぉ ブォ ブォグ Bwogu Bwog	Form 3 (Pw-) Romaji Hiragana Katakana Pwa ぷぁ プァ プァング Pwangu Pwang Pwi ぷぃ プィ プィサング Pwisangu Pwisang Pwe ぷぇ プェ プェトニェト Pwentonyeto Pwetnyet　 Pwo ぷぉ プォ プォー・カレン Pwō Karen Pwo Karen

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ふ

Stroke order in writing フ