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High class consonant · letter 28 of 44

ผ pho phueng

ผ (pho phueng) is a high-class consonant named after ผึ้ง, “bee”. At the start of a syllable it is /pʰ/, written ph in RTGS, and it does not end syllables.

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ผผ ผึ้งpho phueng · bee
Thai name
ผ ผึ้ง · pho phueng
Name word
ผึ้ง, bee
Class
High class
At the start of a syllable
/pʰ/ · RTGS ph
At the end of a syllable
not used
Unicode
U+0E1C · THAI CHARACTER PHO PHUNG
In HTML
ผ or ผ
Kedmanee key
Z
Pattachote key
Shift + J

How it sounds

An aspirated p, as in “pin”. The ph in RTGS is never the f of “phone”. It does not close syllables.

2 other letters have the same sound at the start of a syllable: พ pho phan (low), ภ pho samphao (low).

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 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 ผ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ผาRising
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelผะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelผากLow
Mai ekผ่าLow
Mai thoผ้าFalling
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 ผ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ผมphomI (said by men); hair
ผักphakvegetable
ผ้าphacloth
ผู้ใหญ่phuyaiadult
ผลไม้phonlamaifruit

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

ผ 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.