GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

Codepoint

U+03C6

Literal Character

φ

Name

GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Greek and Coptic

Subblock

Letters

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

Wikipedia

Phi (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
ϕ	GREEK PHI SYMBOL	<compat> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
ᵠ	MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI	<super> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
ᵩ	GREEK SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PHI	<sub> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
𝛗	MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL PHI	<font> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
𝜑	MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL PHI	<font> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
𝝋	MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL PHI	<font> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
𝞅	MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL PHI	<font> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)
𝞿	MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL PHI	<font> GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (U+03C6)