The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
[Late Greek phī, from Greek phei.]
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The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
[Late Greek phī, from Greek phei.]
The phi are spirits in Thailand and Laos who are known for their magical power and for their effect on everyday life. They resemble the nats (see Nats) of Burma. The phi are, above all, associated with the land and the soil and are a link between Buddhism (see Buddhism) and pre-Buddhist animism (see Animism). There is a hierarchy of phi and a cult associated with them (see Neak-tā).
The twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet, φ; or φ;.
Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ), pronounced [fi] in modern Greek and as [faɪ] in English, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents [f], a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented [pʰ], an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 500 (φʹ) or 500,000 (͵φ).
The lower-case letter φ (or often its variant,
) is used as a symbol for:
The upper-case letter Φ is used as a symbol for:

14 means the diameter of the
circle is 14 units.See also phi phenomenon.
In Unicode, there are multiple forms of the phi letter:
In HTML/XHTML, the upper and lower case phi character entity references are Φ (Φ in your browser) and φ
(φ) respectively. In LaTeX, the math symbols are \Phi (Φ),
\phi (φ), and \varphi (
).
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