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U+03C6 · GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

Greek Small Letter Phi

  • CodepointU+03C6
  • NameGREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
  • Decimal966
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptGreek
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03C6 (φ) is GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI, a lowercase letter in the Greek and Coptic block. It belongs to the Greek script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its uppercase form is U+03A6 Φ.

How to type φ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF 862 bytes
UTF-1603C61 code unit
UTF-32000003C64 bytes
HTML namedφnamed character reference
HTML decimalφ
HTML hexφ
CSS\3C6in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03C6
JSON\u03C6
Python\u03C6
Python\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI}by name
Java / C#\u03C6
C / C++\u03C6universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3C6}
Go\u03C6
Ruby\u03C6
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(966)
URL-encoded%CF%86percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0278ɸLatin Small Letter Phi U+03D5ϕGreek Phi Symbol U+0444фCyrillic Small Letter Ef U+1D6D7𝛗Mathematical Bold Small Phi U+1D6DF𝛟Mathematical Bold Phi Symbol U+1D711𝜑Mathematical Italic Small Phi U+1D719𝜙Mathematical Italic Phi Symbol U+1D74B𝝋Mathematical Bold Italic Small Phi U+1D753𝝓Mathematical Bold Italic Phi Symbol U+1D785𝞅Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Phi U+1D78D𝞍Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Phi Symbol U+1D7BF𝞿Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Phi U+1D7C7𝟇Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Phi Symbol U+2CABⲫCoptic Small Letter Fi
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Characters built on φ

U+03D5ϕGreek Phi Symbol U+1D6D7𝛗Mathematical Bold Small Phi U+1D711𝜑Mathematical Italic Small Phi U+1D74B𝝋Mathematical Bold Italic Small Phi U+1D785𝞅Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Phi U+1D7BF𝞿Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Phi U+1D60ᵠModifier Letter Small Greek Phi U+1D69ᵩGreek Subscript Small Letter Phi
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03C0πGreek Small Letter Pi U+03C1ρGreek Small Letter Rho U+03C2ςGreek Small Letter Final Sigma U+03C3σGreek Small Letter Sigma U+03C4τGreek Small Letter Tau U+03C5υGreek Small Letter Upsilon U+03C7χGreek Small Letter Chi U+03C8ψGreek Small Letter Psi U+03C9ωGreek Small Letter Omega U+03CAϊGreek Small Letter Iota with Dialytika U+03CBϋGreek Small Letter Upsilon with Dialytika U+03CCόGreek Small Letter Omicron with Tonos