U+0046 "F" Latin Capital Letter F Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
F
U+0046 "F" Latin Capital Letter F is a fundamental character in the Latin alphabet, representing the sixth letter and a voiceless labiodental fricative consonant sound in English and many other languages. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block, which corresponds directly to the ASCII standard where it has the decimal value of 70. As a capital letter, it is used in proper nouns, the beginning of sentences, and acronyms, and its glyph typically consists of two vertical strokes with a smaller horizontal stroke crossing the upper portion. This character is consistently available across virtually all fonts and digital systems due to its universal encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0046 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter F |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | F |
| HTML Hex Encoding | F |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x46 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0046 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000046 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0046 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Narrow |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| Lowercase Code Point | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| Simple Case Folding | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| Case Folding | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "f" U+0066 Latin Small Letter F |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Hex Digit | Yes |
| ASCII Hex Digit | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |