Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI' (U+03C6)

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GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

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GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI

Unicode Data
Name GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
Block Greek and Coptic
Category Letter, Lowercase [Ll]
Script Greek (Grek)
Combine 0
BIDI Left-to-Right [L]
Comments the ordinary Greek letter, showing considerable glyph variation
in mathematical contexts, the loopy glyph is preferred, to contrast with U+03D5
See Also latin small letter phi U+0278
greek phi symbol U+03D5
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) φ
HTML Entity (hex) φ
HTML Entity (named) φ
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +3C6
Alt 237
UTF-8 (hex) 0xCF 0x86 (cf86)
UTF-8 (binary) 11001111:10000110
UTF-16 (hex) 0x03C6 (03c6)
UTF-16 (decimal) 966
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000003C6 (3c6)
UTF-32 (decimal) 966
C/C++/Java source code "\u03C6"
Python source code u"\u03C6"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() Φ
string.toLowerCase() φ
Character.UnicodeBlock GREEK
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_LEFT_TO_RIGHT [0]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 2
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isLetter() Yes
Character.isLetterOrDigit() Yes
Character.isLowerCase() Yes
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() Yes
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No