ϕ

Technical information

Symbol	ϕ
Name	Greek phi symbol
Unicode number	U+03D5
Category	Variant letterforms

Description

The Unicode character "ϕ", or U+03D5, is known as the "Greek Phi Symbol". It falls under the "Greek and Coptic" block and is categorized as "Letter, Lowercase" in the Unicode standard. This version of the phi character is often used in mathematics and physics to denote a variety of different quantities. In physics, it may represent magnetic flux or the golden ratio, for instance. It's important to note that this is a variant form of the lowercase phi (φ, U+03C6), distinguished by the absence of the vertical stroke at the top.

Encoding

HTML Entity	ϕ
HTML Entity (hex)	ϕ
HTML Entity (named)	ϕ
URL Escape Code	%CF%95
UTF-8 (hex)	0xCF 0x95
UTF-8 (binary)	11001111:10010101
UTF-16	0x03D5
UTF-32	0x000003D5

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u03D5"
CSS Code	\03D5
JavaScript	"\u03D5"
Perl	\x{03D5}
Python 2	u"\u03D5"
Python 3	\u03D5
Ruby	\u{03D5}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ϕ in sentence and in bold like this ϕ and in italic like this ϕ.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#981;</span>

span {
    content: "\03D5";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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