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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 (˙) U+1E1E 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 U+1D6E Phonetics?
Hook Ƒ U+0191 ƒ U+0192 e.g. Ewe
Palatal hook U+1D82 Phonetics?

Ligatures:

Letters Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
FF ligature U+FB00 Typography
FI ligature U+FB01 Typography
FL ligature U+FB02 Typography
FENG ligature ʩ U+02A9 Phonetics?
FFI ligature U+FB03 Typography
FFL ligature U+FB04 Typography

Derived letters:

Variation Capital Unicode point Lower case Unicode point Usage
Small capital U+A730 Phonetics?
Turned (or dotless j with stroke) ɟ U+025F e.g. IPA
Turned (or digamma inversum) U+2132 U+214E Claudian letter
Reversed U+A7FB ?
Insular U+A77B U+A77C Midiaeval manuscripts?
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