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other uses ofHatnote|For Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Forbidden characters|technical reasons , F# redirects here. For the programming language, see F Sharp (programming language) . For other uses, see F-sharp (disambiguation) .pp-move-indef|small=yesLatin alphabet navbox|uc=F|lc=f F (IPAc-en|'|?|f; English_alphabet#Letter_names|named ef , as a verb eff )"F" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); "ef", "eff", "bee" (under bee eff) op. cit. is the sixth Letter (alphabet)|letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet .
History
Proto-Semitic W
Waw (letter)>waw
Etruscan V or W
Greek Digamma
Roman F
The origin of ?f? is the Semitic languages|Semitic letter Waw (letter)| vâv (or waw ) that represented a sound like IPA|/v/ or IPA|/w/. Graphically, it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph , such as List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z#M|that which represented the word mace (transliterated as ?(dj)):- T3
The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendant, ? Y ?, but was also ancestor to Roman letters ? U ?, ? V ?, and ? W ?); and with another form, as a consonant, digamma , which resembled ?F?, but indicated the pronunciation IPA|/w/, as in Phoenician. (After IPA|/w/ disappeared from Greek, digamma was used as a numeral only.)
In Etruscan alphabet|Etruscan , ?F? probably represented IPA|/w/, as in Greek; and the Etruscans formed the Digraph (orthography)|digraph ?FH? to represent IPA|/f/. When the Romans adopted the alphabet, they used ?V? (from Greek upsilon ) to stand for IPA|/w/ as well as IPA|/u/, leaving ?F? available for IPA|/f/. (At that time, the Greek letter phi ?F? represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive IPA|/p?/, though in Modern Greek it approximates the sound of IPA|/f/.)
The lower case ?f? is not related to the visually similar long s , ???. The use of the long s largely died out by the beginning of the 19th century, mostly to prevent confusion with ?f?.
Related letters and other similar characters
unicode|ƒ ƒ : ƒ|Latin letter F with hook
? ? : Ef (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic letter Ef
F f/? : Phi (letter)|Greek letter Phi
Computing codes
character
Unicode name
character encoding
Unicode
UTF-8
Numeric character reference
EBCDIC family
ASCII 1
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
Letter other reps|NATO=Foxtrot |Morse=··–· |Character=F6 |Braille=?
References
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External links
Commons-inline|F
Wiktionary-inline|F
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Latin alphabet|F| Category:ISO basic Latin letters
