Voiceless labiodental fricative | |
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f | |
IPA Number | 128 |
Audio sample | |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | f |
Unicode (hex) | U+0066 |
X-SAMPA | f |
Braille | ![]() |
Voiceless labiodental approximant | |
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ʋ̥ | |
IPA Number | 150 402A |
Encoding | |
X-SAMPA | P_0 |
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⟩.
Some scholars also posit the voiceless labiodental approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨ʋ̥⟩.