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F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet and many modern alphabets influenced by it, including the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of all other modern western European languages. Its name in English is ef (pronounced ), and the plural is efs.

Infobox

Writing system
Latin script
Type
Alphabetic
Language of origin
Latin language
Sound values
mw- [f][ɸ h][v][ʍ xʷ]/ɛf/
In Unicode
U 0046 U 0066
Alphabetical position
6
Development
Ϝ ϝ ϛ𐌅F f
Time period
c. 700 BCE to present
Descendants
Ḟ₣℉ꟻꬵ𝆑
Sisters
UVWYƱϜУЎҰΥו, וּ, וֹ, ﻭ, ۋ, ܘࠅ𐎆𐌖Վ վՈ ոՒ ւև
Transliterations
UVWY
Associated graphs
f(x)
Associated numbers
6, 15
Writing direction
Left-to-right

Tables

· History
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenicianwaw
Western GreekDigamma
EtruscanV or W
LatinF
Pronunciation of ⟨f⟩ by language · Use in writing systems
Standard Chinese (Pinyin)
Standard Chinese (Pinyin)
Orthography
Standard Chinese (Pinyin)
Phonemes
/f/
English
English
Orthography
English
Phonemes
/f/, /v/
French
French
Orthography
French
Phonemes
/f/, silent
German
German
Orthography
German
Phonemes
/f/
Portuguese
Portuguese
Orthography
Portuguese
Phonemes
/f/
Spanish
Spanish
Orthography
Spanish
Phonemes
/f/
Turkish
Turkish
Orthography
Turkish
Phonemes
/f/
Orthography
Phonemes
Standard Chinese (Pinyin)
/f/
English
/f/, /v/
French
/f/, silent
German
/f/
Portuguese
/f/
Spanish
/f/
Turkish
/f/
Character information · Other representations › Computing
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F
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
F
LATIN SMALL LETTER F
f
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
f
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER F
Encodings
Encodings
Preview
Encodings
F
decimal
F
hex
f
dec
f
hex
Ｆ
dec
Ｆ
hex
ｆ
dec
ｆ
hex
Unicode
Unicode
Preview
Unicode
F
70
F
U+0046
f
102
f
U+0066
Ｆ
65318
Ｆ
U+FF26
ｆ
65350
ｆ
U+FF46
UTF-8
UTF-8
Preview
UTF-8
F
70
F
46
f
102
f
66
Ｆ
239 188 166
Ｆ
EF BC A6
ｆ
239 189 134
ｆ
EF BD 86
Numeric character reference
Numeric character reference
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Numeric character reference
F
F
F
F
f
f
f
f
Ｆ
Ｆ
Ｆ
Ｆ
ｆ
ｆ
ｆ
ｆ
EBCDIC family
EBCDIC family
Preview
EBCDIC family
F
198
F
C6
f
134
f
86
ASCII
ASCII
Preview
ASCII
F
70
F
46
f
102
f
66
Preview
F
f
Ｆ
ｆ
mw- Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
LATIN SMALL LETTER F
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER F
Encodings
decimal
hex
dec
hex
dec
hex
dec
hex
Unicode
70
U+0046
102
U+0066
65318
U+FF26
65350
U+FF46
UTF-8
70
46
102
66
239 188 166
EF BC A6
239 189 134
EF BD 86
Numeric character reference
F
F
f
f
Ｆ
Ｆ
ｆ
ｆ
EBCDIC family
198
C6
134
86
ASCII
70
46
102
66

References

  1. Spelled eff when used as a verb.
  2. Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
  3. "F", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); "ef", "eff", "bee" (under "bee eff"), op. cit.
  4. Development of the consonantal system in ancient Greek dialects
    https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/node/54382
  5. The Harvard Dictionary of Music
  6. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
    https://web.archive.org/web/20141020105236/http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textf/Forte.html
  7. Know Your Meme
    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects
  8. "L2/03-174R2: Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03174r2-mid-tilde.pdf
  9. "L2/04-132 Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04132-n2740-phonetic.pdf
  10. "L2/11-202: Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11202-n4081-teuthonista.pdf
  11. Lautzeichen und ihre Anwendung in verschiedenen Sprachgebieten
  12. "Latin Extended-D"
    https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf
  13. "L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf
  14. "L2/20-251: Unicode request for modifier Latin capital letters"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20251-mod-latin.pdf
  15. "L2/06-266: Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06266-n3122-insular.pdf
  16. "L2/06-269: Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06269-add-roman.pdf
  17. "L2/05-193R2: Proposal to add Claudian Latin letters to the UCS"
    https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05193r2-n2960r2-claudian.pdf
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