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Proto-Semitic W
Phoenician
waw
Etruscan V or W
Greek
Digamma
Roman F
The origin of ⟨f⟩ is the Semitic letter vâv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically, it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that which represented the word mace (transliterated as ḥ(dj)):-
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 /w/, as in Phoenician. (After /w/ disappeared from Greek, digamma was used as a numeral only.)
In Etruscan, ⟨F⟩ probably represented /w/, as in Greek; and the Etruscans formed the digraph ⟨FH⟩ to represent /f/. When the Romans adopted the alphabet, they used ⟨V⟩ (from Greek upsilon) to stand for /w/ as well as /u/, leaving ⟨F⟩ available for /f/. (At that time, the Greek letter phi ⟨Φ⟩ represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive /pʰ/, though in Modern Greek it approximates the sound of /f/.)
The lower case ⟨f⟩ is not related to the visually similar long s, ⟨ſ⟩. The use of the long s largely died out by the beginning of the 19th century, mostly to prevent confusion with ⟨f⟩.
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Ƒ ƒ : Latin letter F with hook
Ф ф : Cyrillic letter Ef
Φ φ/ϕ : Greek letter Phi
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character
F
f
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
LATIN SMALL LETTER F
character encoding
decimal
hex
decimal
hex
Unicode
70
0046
102
0066
UTF-8
70
46
102
66
Numeric character reference
F
F
f
f
EBCDIC family
198
C6
134
86
ASCII 1
70
46
102
66
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
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NATO phonetic
Morse code
Foxtrot
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Signal flag
Flag semaphore
Braille
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^ "F" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); "ef", "eff", "bee" (under bee eff) op. cit.
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The Wiktionary entry for F
The Wiktionary entry for f
The ISO basic Latin alphabet
v
d
e
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
Letter F with diacritics
Ḟḟ
Ƒƒ
ᵮ
ᶂ
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