phi

English

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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 (zh), 佛爱 (zh) (fú'ài), 斐 (zh) (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) 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. inv.

1. phi (Greek letter)

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Italian

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

phi m. inv.

1. phi (Greek letter)

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Vietnamese

Verb

phi

1. (of horse) gallop