IPA: ɸ

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ɸ stands for a voiceless bilabial fricative in IPA.

It is written with the greek letter φι - phi, because Ancient Greek aspirated /pʰ/ became /ɸ/ before it became /f/ in Modern Greek. Thus /ɸ/ stays phonetically between /p/ and /f/.


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