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This is a list of letters of the Greek alphabet. The definition of a Greek letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of "Greek" and the general category of "Letter". An overview of the distribution of Greek letters is given in Greek script in Unicode.
Archaic form of Phi. Phi (/ f aɪ /; [1] uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; Ancient Greek: ϕεῖ pheî; Modern Greek: φι fi) is the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet.. In Archaic and Classical Greek (c. 9th to 4th century BC), it represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive ([pʰ]), which was the origin of its usual romanization as ph .
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for consonants as well as vowels. [5]
The OpenType font format has the feature tag "mgrk" ("Mathematical Greek") to identify a glyph as representing a Greek letter to be used in mathematical (as opposed to Greek language) contexts. The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style.
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4]Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
greek capital letter gamma Θ u+0398: 233: greek capital letter theta Σ u+03a3: 228: greek capital letter sigma Φ u+03a6: 232: greek capital letter phi Ω u+03a9: 234: greek capital letter omega α u+03b1: 224: greek small letter alpha δ u+03b4: 235: greek small letter delta ε u+03b5: 238: greek small letter epsilon π u+03c0: 227: greek ...
All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician alphabet, with the exception of the letter Samekh, whose Greek counterpart Xi (Ξ) was used only in a sub-group of Greek alphabets, and with the common addition of Upsilon (Υ) for the vowel /u, ū/.
Greek letter Φ: majuscule U+03A6 Φ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI and minuscule U+03C6 φ GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI are a part of the Greek alphabet. It sometimes take the form of U+03D5 ϕ GREEK PHI SYMBOL and is used as a sign in different fields of studies. The U+0278 ɸ LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI is used in the IPA for voiceless bilabial fricative.