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Low class consonant · letter 31 of 44

ฟ fo fan

ฟ (fo fan) is a low-class consonant named after ฟัน, “teeth”. At the start of a syllable it is /f/, written f in RTGS; at the end of one it is /p̚/ (p).

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ฟฟ ฟันfo fan · teeth
Thai name
ฟ ฟัน · fo fan
Name word
ฟัน, teeth
Class
Low class
At the start of a syllable
/f/ · RTGS f
At the end of a syllable
/p̚/ · RTGS p
Unicode
U+0E1F · THAI CHARACTER FO FAN
In HTML
ฟ or ฟ
Kedmanee key
A
Pattachote key
Shift + ,

How it sounds

The low-class f. At the end of a syllable, in loanwords such as กราฟ, it is read p.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ฝ fo fa (high).

Easy to mistake for พ pho phan and ฝ fo fa: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

With no mark, a low-class letter gives the mid tone in a live syllable; in a dead one the tone is high when the vowel is short and falling when it is long. Mai ek gives falling and mai tho high.

Syllables with ฟ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฟาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฟะHigh
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฟากFalling
Mai ekฟ่าFalling
Mai thoฟ้าHigh
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 ฟ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ฟ้าfasky
ไฟfaifire; light
ฟังfangto listen
ฟุตบอลfutbonfootball
กราฟkrapgraph

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

ฟ 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.