φ

Alternative forms

• ϕ (mathematics, technical)

Etymology 1

Named by mathematician Mark Barr after Ancient Greek Φειδίας (Pheidías) (Phidias), who supposedly used the golden ratio in his work.

Etymology 2

Etymology

Derived from its majuscule counterpart Φ.

Letter

φ • (ph) (lowercase, uppercase Φ)

1. Lower-case phi (φεῖ), the 21st letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the voiceless aspirated bilabial plosive /pʰ/ and later the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/. It is preceded by υ and followed by χ.

See also

• (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
• (non-Classical letters) Ϝ (W) ϝ (w), Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ (H) ͱ (h), Ϻ (S) ϻ (s), Ϟ, ϟ, Ϙ (Q) ϙ (q), Ͳ (S) ͳ (s)
• (punctuation) · ;
• (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨

Letter

φ • (f) (lowercase, uppercase Φ)

1. The lower case letter phi (φι), the 21st letter of the modern Greek alphabet.