What is the difference between Greek Phi Symbol and Latin Small Letter Phi?

Greek Phi Symbol is U+03D5 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter Phi is U+0278 in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Phi Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Phi Symbol (U+03D5) is ϕ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Phi?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Phi (U+0278) is ɸ.

Are Greek Phi Symbol and Latin Small Letter Phi the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Phi Symbol is U+03D5 (decimal 981) and Latin Small Letter Phi is U+0278 (decimal 632). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Phi Symbol and Latin Small Letter Phi?

Greek Phi Symbol (U+03D5) encodes as CF 95 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Phi (U+0278) encodes as C9 B8 in UTF-8.

Greek Phi Symbol vs Latin Small Letter Phi

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Greek Phi Symbol

U+03D5

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Latin Small Letter Phi

U+0278

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Phi Symbol	Latin Small Letter Phi
Codepoint	`U+03D5`	`U+0278`
Decimal	`981`	`632`
HTML Entity	`ϕ`	`ɸ`
HTML Decimal	`ϕ`	`ɸ`
HTML Hex	`ϕ`	`ɸ`
UTF-8	`CF 95`	`C9 B8`
UTF-16	`03 D5`	`02 78`
UTF-32	`000003D5`	`00000278`
CSS Escape	`\3D5`	`\278`
JS Escape	`\u03D5`	`\u0278`
Python Escape	`\u03D5`	`\u0278`
URL Encoded	`%CF%95`	`%C9%B8`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`IPA Extensions`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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