The katakana syllable フ(fu). Its equivalent in hiragana is ふ(fu). It is the twenty-eighth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ハ行ウ段(ha-gyō u-dan, “row ha, section u”).
Za razliku od sistema hiragana, koji se koristi za reči japanskog jezika koji kanji ne pokriva, program katakana se primarno koristi zaTranskripcijarečistranihjezikanajapanski i pisanje kreditne riječi s (kolektivno gairaigo), kao i zastupanje onomatopeja, tehničkih i naučnih izraza, kao i imena Biljke, životinje i minerale. Nazivi japanskih kompanija, kao i određene reči japanskog jezika, ponekad se pišu katakanom, a ne drugim sistemom. [unos]Unlike the hiragana system, used for Japanese language words that kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary is used primarily for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo), as well as to represent onomatopoeias, technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. Names of Japanese companies, as well as certain Japanese language words, are also sometimes written in katakana rather than the other systems. [unos]