Q394641
Sign in to saveAlso known as U+0191, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F WITH HOOK
thumb|class=skin-invert-image thumb|Lowercase F with a hook in regular type on the left and in italic on the right, the florin sign is always in italic.|class=skin-invert-image The letter F with hook (uppercase Ƒ, lowercase: ƒ) is a letter of the Latin script based on the letters F and f with a descender hook added. The italic form of the lowercase letter is used as a florin symbol. A similar-looking letter, (a turned f for a voiced palatal with an implosive hook), is used in the IPA for a voiced palatal implosive.
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- Latin letter F with hook.svg
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- Unicode character
- Ƒ
- Commons category
- Ƒ
- Unicode code point
- 0191
- Unicode character name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F WITH HOOK
- HTML entity
- Ƒ
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thumb|class=skin-invert-image thumb|Lowercase F with a hook in regular type on the left and in italic on the right, the florin sign is always in italic.|class=skin-invert-image The letter F with hook (uppercase Ƒ, lowercase: ƒ) is a letter of the Latin script based on the letters F and f with a descender hook added. The italic form of the lowercase letter is used as a florin symbol. A similar-looking letter, (a turned f for a voiced palatal with an implosive hook), is used in the IPA for a voiced palatal implosive.
== Regular == Ƒ is used in writing the Ewe language in a straight form to represent the sound , as distinct from the letter F, which represents an . It is also used in the Avatime, Lelemi, Nyangbo-Tafi, and Waci languages.