Voiceless labiodental fricative

The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in a number of spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is f.

Voiceless labiodental fricative
f
IPA Number128
Audio sample
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)f
Unicode (hex)U+0066
X-SAMPAf
Braille
Voiceless labiodental approximant
ʋ̥
IPA Number150 402A
Encoding
X-SAMPAP_0

Some scholars also posit the voiceless labiodental approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ʋ̥.

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