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⟩.
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History[eedit | eedit soorce]
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[eedit | eedit soorce]
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[eedit | eedit soorce]
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[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Φ φ/ϕ : Greek letter Phi
- Ѳ ѳ : Cyrillic letter Fita
- F f : Latin letter F
Computin codes[eedit | eedit soorce]
Character | Ф | ф | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAIPITAL LETTER EF | CYRILLIC SMAA LETTER EF | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 1060 | U+0424 | 1092 | U+0444 |
UTF-8 | 208 164 | D0 A4 | 209 132 | D1 84 |
Numeric chairacter 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 |