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Latin alphabet Latin alphabet
	Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd
Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj
Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp
Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv
	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F,called Digamma in Greek, has disappeared due to the fact that the /w/ phoneme itself disappeared.) The origin of F is the Semitic letter wâw that also represented /w/ and originally probably represented a hook or a club.

The minuscule f is not to be confused with ?, the archaic long s (or medial s). For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "?infulne?s" using the long s. The use of the long s died out by the end of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with f.

2 Phonetic use

In English, F represents the voiceless labiodental fricative ('f' in IPA), although in certain words, such as "of", it can be a voiced labiodental fricative ('v' in IPA). The digraphDigraph has several meanings: Directed graph, or digraph Digraph (orthography) Digraph (computing). "ff", pronounced 'f', is often used at the end of words (and, in rare personal or placenames, at the beginning). Both initial and final F are commonly used with other discrete consonants.

In other languages, F can take on different values, such as 'ɸ' ( voiceless bilabial fricativeThe voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p\. Features of this consonant: Its mann) in SpanishThis article is about the international language known as Spanish. For other languages spoken in Spain see Languages of Spain Spanish is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first langua and Romanized JapaneseThe Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is Nihongo . History and classification Historical linguists do not all agree about the origin of the Japanese language; there are several comp or 'v' in WelshWelsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. For other meanings, see Wales (disambiguation). Welsh Cymraeg y Gymraeg , not to be confused with the Welsh dialect of English, is a Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in the wes (which uses the "ff" digraph for IPA 'f'). Different digraphs can also be used, such as "pf" in GermanGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. for the affricate formed by 'p' and 'f'.

3 Alternate representations

Foxtrot represents the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabetA different kind of phonetic alphabet is the International Phonetic Alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet is a common name for the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which assigned words to the letters.

In international Morse code the letter F is DitDitDahDit: · · - ·

In Braille the letter F is represented as ⠋ (in Unicode), the dot pattern,

XX X. ..

3.1 Computing

In Unicode the capital F is codepoint U+0046 and the lowercase f is U+0066.

The ASCII code for capital F is 70 and for lowercase f is 102; or in binary 01000110 and 01100110, correspondingly.

The EBCDIC code for capital F is 198 and for lowercase f is 134.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "F" and "f" for upper and lower case respectively.

4 Ligatures

In formal typography, particularly for serifed fonts, minuscule f is one of the most commonly ligated letters.

5 Meanings for F

In the atmosphere of Earth, the F layer is part of the ionosphere.
In biochemistry, F is the symbol for phenylalanine.
In calendars, F is often an abbreviation for Friday, or for the month February.
In chemistry, F is the symbol for fluorine.
In education, F is a failing grade
In electronics, a F connector (i.e. used for inlet in cablemodems). See http://www.marine-electronics.net/techarticle/coax/f-con.htm
In financial securities, F is the stock symbol for Ford Motor Company
In grammar, f is often an abbreviation for the female grammatical gender
In information systems, F is often used as an abbreviation for the female sex in personal data records.
In international licence plate codes, F stands for France.
In mathematics, F is often used as a digit meaning fifteen in hexadecimal and other positional numeral systems with a radix of 16 or greater.
In the Metric system,
- F is the symbol for farad, the SI derived unit for electric capacitance.
- f, femto, is the SI prefix meaning 10^-15.
In music,
- F is a note.
- f is a notation for forte.
In photography, F is the focal length (cf. F-number).
In physics, F is usually the Faraday constant. f is sometimes the variable for frequency
In printing, f. is an abbreviation for folio (page in a book), although it is more common to see ff. as the plural form.
In propositional logic F is the symbol for false.
In radiocommunication, F is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to France.
In temperature, ºF is degrees Fahrenheit.

6 See also

Two-letter combinations starting with F:

fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz

Letter-digit combinations starting with F:

F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9

Hexadecimal digit

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