Ƒ

The letter  (minuscule: ƒ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the italic form of F. It is used in writing the Ewe language to represent a voiceless bilabial fricative (IPA: ), as distinct from the letter F, which represents a voiceless labiodental fricative. Compare , which is the equivalent voiced sound.

The minuscule ƒ is also used as an abbreviation for florin, gulden and guilder.

The lowercase ƒ is also used in mathamatics for function notation:
 ƒ(x)=πx2

Use on computers
Older fonts and character encodings included only the minuscule form for its use as an abbreviation. Unicode includes both the majuscule and the minuscule.

Other websites
Practical Orthography of African Languages

Category:Latin alphabet