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'''F''', or '''f''', is the sixth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Latin alphabet]], usedand inmany modern alphabets influenced by it, including the [[English alphabet|modern English alphabet]], and the alphabets of all other modern western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is [[English alphabet#Letter names|''ef'']]{{NoteTagefn|Spelled ''eff'' when used as a verb.}} (pronounced {{IPAc-en|'|ɛ|f}}), and the plural is ''efs''.<ref>"F", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); "ef", "eff", "bee" (under "bee eff"), ''op. cit.''</ref>

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The origin of 'F' is the [[History of the alphabet#Semitic alphabet|Semitic]] letter ''[[Waw (letter)|waw]]'' that represented a sound like {{IPA|/v/}} or {{IPA|/w/}}. Graphically it originally probably originally depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable [[Egyptian hieroglyph]] such as [[List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z#M|that which represented the word ''mace'']] (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): <hiero>T3</hiero>

After sound changes eliminated {{IPA|/w/}} from spoken Greek, ''[[digamma]]'' was used only as a numeral. However, the Greek alphabet also gave rise to other alphabets, and some of these retained letters descended from digamma. In the [[Etruscan alphabet]], 'F' probably represented {{IPA|/w/}}, as in Greek, and the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] formed the [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] 'FH' to represent {{IPA|/f/}}. (At the time these letters were borrowed, there was no Greek letter that represented /f/: the Greek letter [[phi]] 'Φ' then represented an aspirated [[voiceless bilabial plosive]] {{IPA|/p^h/}}, although in [[Modern Greek]] it has come to represent {{IPA|/f/}}.) When the Romans adopted the alphabet, they used 'V' (from Greek ''[[upsilon]]'') not only for the vowel {{IPA|/u/}}, but also for the corresponding semivowel {{IPA|/w/}}, leaving 'F' available for {{IPA|/f/}}. And so out of the various ''vav'' variants in the Mediterranean world, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached to a sound which the Greeks did not have. The Roman alphabet forms the basis of the alphabet used today for English and many other languages.

* In spoken [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], {{angbr|f}} in the middle of a word is often voiced to {{IPA|[v]}} (e.g., Að sofa -– to sleep).

* AnThe italic letter {{mvar|f}} is conventionally used to denote an arbitrary [[function (mathematics)|function]]. SeeClosely alsoon [[f with hook]] (ƒ).

* The letter F has become an [[Internet meme]], where it is [[Press F to pay respects|used to pay respects]]. This use is derived from the 2014 video game ''[[Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare]]'', where in a quick-time event, protagonist Jack Mitchell must pay his respects to his friend Will Irons who fell in combat in a previous mission, represented by the player pressing F when playing the PC version. People on the Internet use the letter F usuallysometimes in a genuine way to express respectsrespect, sadness, or condolences towards other Internet personalities, Internet memes, or other players on certain events, such as death, misfortune or the end of a phenomenon, company, game, series, etc.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects |title = Press F to pay respects |newspaper = Know Your Meme |date = 20 December 2014 |access-date = 15 March 2020 }}</ref>

* ꟳ : Modifier letter capital F<ref>{{Cite web|title=L2/20-251: Unicode request for modifier Latin capital letters|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20251-mod-latin.pdf|date=2020-09-25|first1=Kirk|last1=Miller|first2=Craig|last2=Cornelius}}</ref> -– Used to mark tone for the [[Chatino language|Chatino]] orthography in Oaxaca, Mexico; Used as a generic transcription for a falling tone; Usedused in para-[[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] notation.

* 𐤅: [[Phoenician alphabet|Semitic]] letter [[Waw (letter)|Waw]], from which the following symbols originally derive:

** Ϝ ϝ : [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] letter [[Digamma]], from which F derives:

These are the [[code point]]s for the forms of the letter in various systems:

| map2 = [[ASCII]]{{efn|Also ¹for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.}} | map2char1 = 46 | map2char2 = 66

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