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Mid class consonant · letter 27 of 44

ป po pla

ป (po pla) is a mid-class consonant named after ปลา, “fish”. At the start of a syllable it is /p/, written p in RTGS; at the end of one it is /p̚/ (p).

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ปป ปลาpo pla · fish
Thai name
ป ปลา · po pla
Name word
ปลา, fish
Class
Mid class
At the start of a syllable
/p/ · RTGS p
At the end of a syllable
/p̚/ · RTGS p
Unicode
U+0E1B · THAI CHARACTER PO PLA
In HTML
ป or ป
Kedmanee key
X
Pattachote key
X

How it sounds

An unaspirated p, like the p in “spin”. Paiboon writes it bp to set it apart from the aspirated พ.

Easy to mistake for บ bo baimai and ษ so ruesi: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

Mid-class letters are the only ones that take all four tone marks. With no mark, a live syllable has the mid tone and a dead one the low tone; mai ek gives low, mai tho falling, mai tri high and mai chattawa rising.

Syllables with ป and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ปาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelปะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelปากLow
Mai ekป่าLow
Mai thoป้าFalling
Mai triป๊าHigh
Mai chattawaป๋าRising

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

Words with ป

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ไปpaito go
ปีpiyear
เปิดpoetto open
ประตูpratudoor
รูปruppicture, shape

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

ป 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.