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High class consonant · letter 29 of 44

ฝ fo fa

ฝ (fo fa) is a high-class consonant named after ฝา, “lid”. At the start of a syllable it is /f/, written f in RTGS, and it does not end syllables.

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ฝฝ ฝาfo fa · lid
Thai name
ฝ ฝา · fo fa
Name word
ฝา, lid
Class
High class
At the start of a syllable
/f/ · RTGS f
At the end of a syllable
not used
Unicode
U+0E1D · THAI CHARACTER FO FA
In HTML
ฝ or ฝ
Kedmanee key
/
Pattachote key
Shift + U

How it sounds

The high-class f; ฟ is its low-class partner. It does not close syllables.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ฟ fo fan (low).

Easy to mistake for ผ pho phueng and ฟ fo fan: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a high-class letter gives a rising tone in a live syllable and a low tone in a dead one. Mai ek gives low and mai tho falling; the other two marks are not used.

Syllables with ฝ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฝาRising
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฝะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฝากLow
Mai ekฝ่าLow
Mai thoฝ้าFalling
Mai tri–not used with this class
Mai chattawa–not used with this class

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ฝ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ฝนfonrain
ฝันfanto dream
ฝากfakto leave in someone’s care
ฝรั่งfarangWesterner; guava
ฝึกfuekto practise, to train

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ฝ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.