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Also known as ef, ф (Cyrillic letter)

Cyrillic letter

AI overview

Ф (called "Ef") is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Russian and other Slavic languages. It represents the "f" sound and is essential for spelling words borrowed from other languages or native words that contain this consonant sound.

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Encyclopedic overview

Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф or Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, like the pronunciation of ⟨f⟩ in fill, flee or fall. The Cyrillic letter Ef is romanized as ⟨f⟩.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ф” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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