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The letter Ƒ (minuscule: ƒ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the italic form of f; or on its regular form with a descender hook added.

Regular

It is used in writing the Ewe language in a straight form to represent a voiceless bilabial fricative (IPA: /ɸ/), as distinct from the letter F, which represents a voiceless labiodental fricative. The voiced bilabial fricative the equivalent voiced sound. uierbgibfivrt 3tiuh p3th 3tiopgh krjbkgrkvjw voiw gur4iu24gt ;i2rt

Italic

The minuscule italic ƒ is also used as an abbreviation for florin, gulden and guilder. It can be found as italic in non-italic fonts.

Currency sign

The currency sign "ƒ", called the florin sign. It is used in a number of currencies. It is always "italic."

Use on computers

Older fonts and character encodings included only the minuscule form for its use as an abbreviation. Unicode includes both the majuscule and the minuscule. Because of its origin, the italic ƒ (f with a hook) will often look exactly like the italic f (f) in some typefaces. Ƒ and ƒ occupy code points U+191 and U+192 in Unicode respectively, and may be entered by appropriate input methods.

See also