Comments on: What does the greek Phi character mean when talking about statistics? http://lessonsgreek.com/what-does-the-greek-phi-character-mean-when-talking-about-statistics.html The Greek language online. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: alpha b http://lessonsgreek.com/what-does-the-greek-phi-character-mean-when-talking-about-statistics.html/comment-page-1#comment-903 alpha b Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:54:31 +0000 http://lessonsgreek.com/what-does-the-greek-phi-character-mean-when-talking-about-statistics.html#comment-903 Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ), pronounced [fi] in modern Greek and as [faɪ] in English, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents [f], a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented [pʰ], an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive (from which English ultimately inherits the spelling "ph" in words derived from Greek). In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 500 (φʹ) or 500,000 (͵φ). The Cyrillic letter Ef (Ф, ф) arose from phi. Phi (uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ), pronounced [fi] in modern Greek and as [faɪ] in English, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents [f], a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented [pʰ], an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive (from which English ultimately inherits the spelling "ph" in words derived from Greek).

In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 500 (φʹ) or 500,000 (͵φ). The Cyrillic letter Ef (Ф, ф) arose from phi.

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