Voiceless bilabial fricative

Voiceless bilabial fricative
ɸ
IPA number126
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Entity (decimal)ɸ
Unicode (hex)U+0278
X-SAMPAp\
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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, a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.