phi

English

Wikipedia

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← upsilon		→ chi
Φ φ Ancient Greek: φεῖ
Wikipedia article on phi

Pronunciation

• IPA: /faɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: fie
• IPA: /fiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophone: fee

Noun

phi (plural phis)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient.
2. A visual illusion caused by lights turning on and off in a sequential pattern that implies motion.
3. (mathematics) The symbol for the golden ratio.

Translations

Greek letter

• Arabic: فاي (ar) (fay) m
• Catalan: fi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗愛 (cmn), 佛爱 (cmn) (fú'ài), 斐 (cmn) (fěi)

• Czech: fí (cs) n
• Dutch: phi (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: fio (eo)
• Finnish: fii (fi)
• French: phi (fr) m
• German: Phi (de) n
• Greek: φι (el) (fi) n

• Interlingua: phi (ia)
• Japanese: ファイ (ja) (fai), フィ (ja) (fi), ピー (ja) (pī)
• Korean: 피 (ko) (pi)
• Malay: fi (ms)
• Persian: فی (fa) (fi)
• Portuguese: fi (pt) m
• Romanian: fi (ro)
• Russian: фи (ru) (fi) (indeclinable)
• Slovak: fí (sk)
• Spanish: fi (es) f

See also

• (Greek letter): Previous: upsilon, Next: chi

Anagrams

• hip HIP

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French

Noun

phi m (invariable)

1. phi (Greek letter)

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Italian

Noun

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phi m (invariable)

1. phi (Greek letter)

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Vietnamese

Verb

phi

1. (of horses) gallop