"ɸ" redirects here. For the Greek letter, see Phi (letter). For the Cyrillic letter, see Ef (Cyrillic). For the Armenian letter, see Piwr (letter).
Voiceless bilabial fricative
ɸ
IPA Number
126
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)
ɸ
Unicode (hex)
U+0278
X-SAMPA
p\
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The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸ⟩, a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.
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