Voiceless labiodental fricative
| Voiceless labiodental fricative | |||
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| f | |||
| IPA number | 128 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | f | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0066 | ||
| X-SAMPA | f | ||
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A voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in a number of spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "f" sound in "face". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨f⟩.