GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

Property Value
Codepoint U+03C6
Literal Character φ
Name GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block Greek and Coptic
Subblock ASCII punctuation
UTF-8 byte encoding cf 86
UTF-16 byte encoding 03 c6 (big endian)
HTML Entity φ
LaTeX expression \ensuremath{\phi}
Perl string literal \x{3C6}
Comments
  • the ordinary Greek letter, showing considerable glyph variation
  • in mathematical contexts, the loopy glyph is preferred, to contrast with 03D5
See Also U+0278: latin small letter phi
U+03D5: greek phi symbol