Voiceless labiodental fricative

Voiceless labiodental fricative
f
IPA number128
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)f
Unicode (hex)U+0066
X-SAMPAf
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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⟩.