F is the sixth letter of the latin alphabet. It is encoded in unicode as Latin Capital Letter F, U+0046 (F) and Latin Small Letter F, U+0066 (f).
Appearance[]
A capital F is very similar to Greek Letter Digamma, U+03DC (Ϝ), and may be completely identical in some fonts.
The Armenian Small Letter Keh, U+0584 (ք) may look like a lower case f, but more often it looks like a p with a stroke through its descender.
Usage[]
The letter F is used in many languages that use the latin alphabet. Although some languages, like Finnish, have no use for it, as they do not have an f-sound, and thus only uses it in loan words.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents a voiceless labiodental fricative.
Diacritics, ligatures and derivations[]
An F can't take very many diacritics, but it does occur in some typographic ligatures and has some variant letters.
Above the letter:
Diacritic | Capital | Unicode point | Lower case | Unicode point | Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dot (˙) | Ḟ | U+1E1E | ḟ | U+1E1F | e.g. Old Irish |
Through the letter or as part of the letter:
Diacritic | Capital | Unicode point | Lower case | Unicode point | Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Middle tilde | ᵮ | U+1D6E | Phonetics? | ||
Hook | Ƒ | U+0191 | ƒ | U+0192 | e.g. Ewe |
Palatal hook | ᶂ | U+1D82 | Phonetics? |
Ligatures:
Letters | Capital | Unicode point | Lower case | Unicode point | Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
FF ligature | ff | U+FB00 | Typography | ||
FI ligature | fi | U+FB01 | Typography | ||
FL ligature | fl | U+FB02 | Typography | ||
FENG ligature | ʩ | U+02A9 | Phonetics? | ||
FFI ligature | ffi | U+FB03 | Typography | ||
FFL ligature | ffl | U+FB04 | Typography |
Derived letters:
Variation | Capital | Unicode point | Lower case | Unicode point | Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small capital | ꜰ | U+A730 | Phonetics? | ||
Turned (or dotless j with stroke) | ɟ | U+025F | e.g. IPA | ||
Turned (or digamma inversum) | Ⅎ | U+2132 | ⅎ | U+214E | Claudian letter |
Reversed | ꟻ | U+A7FB | ? | ||
Insular | Ꝼ | U+A77B | ꝼ | U+A77C | Midiaeval manuscripts? |