Voiceless bilabial fricative | |||
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ɸ | |||
IPA number | 126 | ||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ɸ |
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Unicode (hex) | U+0278 | ||
X-SAMPA | p\ |
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Kirshenbaum | P |
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Sound | |||
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The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸ⟩. For English-speakers, it is easiest to think of the sound as an f-sound made only with the lips, instead of the upper teeth and lower lip, or a blowing sound.
Features of the voiceless bilabial fricative: