Ethiopic syllable Fu

It is the Ethiopic fu syllable. The f-series keeps its consonant while the vowel changes.

South Arabian consonant script reached the Horn by the 8th/7th centuries BCE. As of 2026, the earliest known Ethiopian alphabet record is from Dakhanamo. The Ethiopic consonant script wrote Ge'ez, an older regional language, in the 1st–3rd centuries CE. In the 4th century CE, vowel marks made it an abugida: each sign combines a consonant and vowel. Amharic adopted it in the 13th or 14th century; Tigrinya also uses it.

What does ፉ mean alone?

Alone, it gives a syllable, not a clear word meaning. Ask which word or language was intended.