Ef (Cyrillic)

Ef (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representin the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, like the pronunciation o ⟨f⟩ in "fill". The Cyrillic letter Ef is romanized as ⟨f⟩.

History

The Cyrillic letter Ef wis derived frae the Greek letter Phi (Φ φ). It merged wi an eliminatit letter Fita (Ѳ) in the Roushie alphabet in 1918.

The name o Ef in the Early Cyrillic alphabet is фрьтъ (fr̥tŭ or frĭtŭ), in later Kirk Slavonic an Roushie fairm it acame фертъ (fert).

In the Cyrillic numeral seestem, Ef haes a value o 500.

Uisage

The Slavic leids practically dae nae hae native wirds containin /f/; this soond, which did nae exist in Proto-Indo-European, arose in Greek an Latin frae PIE *bʰ (which yielded Slavic /b/) an in the Germanic leids frae PIE *p (which remained unchynged in Slavic). The letter ф is, tharefore, almaist exclusively foond in wirds o foreign origin, especially Greek (frae ph an sometimes frae th), Latin, French, German, Inglis, an Turkic.

Few native Slavic wirds wi this letter (in different leids) are examples o onomatopoeia (like Roushie verbs фукать, фыркать etc.) or reflect sporadic pronunciation shifts, for example:

• frae пв /pv/: Serbie уфати 'tae hope' (cf. Kirk Slavonic уповати 'tae hope')
• frae хв /xv/: Macedonie сфати '(he) unnerstaunds' (cf. Kirk Slavonic схватити 'tae take, tae catch')
• frae х /x/: Roushie toponym Фили 'Fili' (frae хилый 'sickly')

Roushie

Ef is the twenty-seicont (if Yo is includit) letter o the Russian alphabet. It represents the consonant /f/ unless it is afore a palatalizing vowel when it represents /fʲ/.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

• Φ φ/ϕ : Greek letter Phi
• Ѳ ѳ : Cyrillic letter Fita
• F f : Latin letter F

Computin codes

Character	Ф		ф
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAIPITAL LETTER EF		CYRILLIC SMAA LETTER EF
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	1060	U+0424	1092	U+0444
UTF-8	208 164	D0 A4	209 132	D1 84
Numeric character reference	Ф	Ф	ф	ф
KOI8-R an KOI8-U	230	E6	198	C6
Code page 855	171	AB	170	AA
Code page 866	148	94	228	E4
Windows-1251	212	D4	244	F4
ISO-8859-5	196	C4	228	E4
Macintosh Cyrillic	148	94	244	F4

Freemit airtins

• The dictionar defineetion o Ф at Wiktionary
• The dictionar defineetion o ф at Wiktionary