ㄈ

See also: 匚, 匸, ㄷ, コ, and 그

ㄈ U+3108, ㄈ BOPOMOFO LETTER F ← ㄇ [U+3107] Bopomofo ㄉ → [U+3109]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄈ

1. type: initial consonant
2. general transliteration: f
3. keyboard key: Z

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from "right open box" radical 匚 (fāng) (Mandarin: fāng).

Etymology

Initial consonant derived from "right open box" radical 匚 (fāng) (Mandarin: fāng) + rhyme.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fō, fē (fo¹, fe¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄛ, ㄈㄜ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fō
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fo
    • Wade–Giles: fo¹
    • Yale: fwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fo
    • Palladius: фо (fo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fē
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fe
    • Wade–Giles: fê¹
    • Yale: fē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fe
    • Palladius: фэ (fɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤ⁵⁵/

Letter

1. 4th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 5th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) sound IPA^(key): /f/ (Pinyin: f), which is commonly present in Chinese, with the exceptions being Xiamen and Wenzhou dialects.

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 4th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. IPA^(key): /f/ (Hutton): f

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198