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U+03D5 · GREEK PHI SYMBOL

Greek Phi Symbol

  • CodepointU+03D5
  • NameGREEK PHI SYMBOL
  • Decimal981
  • 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 widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+03D5 (ϕ) is GREEK PHI SYMBOL, 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.

It is a compatibility variant of U+03C6 φ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03C6 φ. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ϕ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CF 952 bytes
UTF-1603D51 code unit
UTF-32000003D54 bytes
HTML named&phiv;named character reference
HTML named&varphi;named character reference
HTML named&straightphi;named character reference
HTML decimal&#981;
HTML hex&#x3D5;
CSS\3D5in content: "…"
JavaScript\u03D5
JSON\u03D5
Python\u03D5
Python\N{GREEK PHI SYMBOL}by name
Java / C#\u03D5
C / C++\u03D5universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3D5}
Go\u03D5
Ruby\u03D5
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(981)
URL-encoded%CF%95percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03C6 φ
NFKDU+03C6 φ
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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+03C6φGreek Small Letter Phi 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+1D6DF𝛟Mathematical Bold Phi Symbol U+1D719𝜙Mathematical Italic Phi Symbol U+1D753𝝓Mathematical Bold Italic Phi Symbol U+1D78D𝞍Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Phi Symbol U+1D7C7𝟇Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Phi Symbol
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+03CFϏGreek Capital Kai Symbol U+03D0ϐGreek Beta Symbol U+03D1ϑGreek Theta Symbol U+03D2ϒGreek Upsilon with Hook Symbol U+03D3ϓGreek Upsilon with Acute and Hook Symbol U+03D4ϔGreek Upsilon with Diaeresis and Hook Symbol U+03D6ϖGreek Pi Symbol U+03D7ϗGreek Kai Symbol U+03D8ϘGreek Letter Archaic Koppa U+03D9ϙGreek Small Letter Archaic Koppa U+03DAϚGreek Letter Stigma U+03DBϛGreek Small Letter Stigma