Greek Small Letter Phi

U+03C6

About Greek Small Letter Phi

Greek Small Letter Phi is the Unicode character φ at codepoint U+03C6 in the Greek and Coptic block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Greek Small Letter Phi

To use the Greek Small Letter Phi symbol (φ) in HTML, insert the entity φ directly into your markup. The decimal entity φ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\3C6';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u03C6' evaluates to φ. In Python source, write '\u03C6'.

The character encodes to CF 86 as UTF-8 bytes and 03C6 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 966.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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