پساي (حرف إغريقي)
پسي (باليونانية ψι/ψῖ) هو أحد حروف الأبجدية الإغريقية، يأخذ الحرف شكلين الكبير (Ψ) والصغير (ψ). وفي حقل الفلك يشير هذا الحرف الى النجم الثالث والعشرين من حيث السطوع في كوكبة من كوكبات السماء ومثاله (پساي التنين)
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Use as a symbol
The letter psi is commonly used in physics to represent wave functions in quantum mechanics, such as in the Schrödinger equation and bra–ket notation: . It is also used to represent the (generalized) positional states of a qubit in a quantum computer.
Psi is also used as the symbol for the polygamma function, defined by
where is the gamma function.
The letters Ψ or ψ can also be a symbol for:
- psychology, psychiatry, and sometimes parapsychology (involving paranormal or relating with the supernatural subjects, especially research into extrasensory perception).
- In mathematics, the reciprocal Fibonacci constant.
- Water potential in movement of water between plant cells.
- In biochemistry, it denotes the rare nucleotide pseudouridilic acid.
- Stream function in fluid mechanics defining the curve to which the flow velocity is always tangent.
- One of the dihedral angles in the backbones of proteins
- The planet Neptune
- Indiana University (as a superimposed I and U)
- Gangster Disciples
- A sai, the name of which is pronounced the same way.
- Pharmacology, general pharmacy
- In virology the ψ site is a viral packaging signal.
- The J/ψ meson, in particle physics.
- In the computability theory, represents the return value of a program .
- In circadian physiology, ψ represents the phase relationship between a zeitgeber and a biological rhythm.
- In building, to represent an adjustment to a U-value, accounting for thermal bridge effects.
- The ordinal collapsing function and notation developed by Wilfried Buchholz[1]
Character Encodings
- Greek / Coptic Psi
الحرف | Ψ | ψ | ᴪ | Ⲯ | ⲯ | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI | GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI | GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL PSI | COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER PSI | COPTIC SMALL LETTER PSI | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
يونيكود | 936 | U+03A8 | 968 | U+03C8 | 7466 | U+1D2A | 11438 | U+2CAE | 11439 | U+2CAF |
UTF-8 | 206 168 | CE A8 | 207 136 | CF 88 | 225 180 170 | E1 B4 AA | 226 178 174 | E2 B2 AE | 226 178 175 | E2 B2 AF |
Numeric character reference | Ψ | Ψ | ψ | ψ | ᴪ | ᴪ | Ⲯ | Ⲯ | ⲯ | ⲯ |
Named character reference | Ψ | ψ | ||||||||
DOS Greek | 150 | 96 | 175 | AF | ||||||
DOS Greek-2 | 212 | D4 | 246 | F6 | ||||||
Windows 1253 | 216 | D8 | 248 | F8 | ||||||
TeX | \Psi | \psi |
- Cyrillic Psi
الحرف | Ѱ | ѱ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PSI | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PSI | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
يونيكود | 1136 | U+0470 | 1137 | U+0471 |
UTF-8 | 209 176 | D1 B0 | 209 177 | D1 B1 |
Numeric character reference | Ѱ | Ѱ | ѱ | ѱ |
- Mathematical Psi
الحرف | 𝚿 | 𝛙 | 𝛹 | 𝜓 | 𝜳 | 𝝍 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL PSI | ||||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
يونيكود | 120511 | U+1D6BF | 120537 | U+1D6D9 | 120569 | U+1D6F9 | 120595 | U+1D713 | 120627 | U+1D733 | 120653 | U+1D74D |
UTF-8 | 240 157 154 191 | F0 9D 9A BF | 240 157 155 153 | F0 9D 9B 99 | 240 157 155 185 | F0 9D 9B B9 | 240 157 156 147 | F0 9D 9C 93 | 240 157 156 179 | F0 9D 9C B3 | 240 157 157 141 | F0 9D 9D 8D |
Numeric character reference | 𝚿 | 𝚿 | 𝛙 | 𝛙 | 𝛹 | 𝛹 | 𝜓 | 𝜓 | 𝜳 | 𝜳 | 𝝍 | 𝝍 |
الحرف | 𝝭 | 𝞇 | 𝞧 | 𝟁 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL PSI |
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL PSI | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
يونيكود | 120685 | U+1D76D | 120711 | U+1D787 | 120743 | U+1D7A7 | 120769 | U+1D7C1 |
UTF-8 | 240 157 157 173 | F0 9D 9D AD | 240 157 158 135 | F0 9D 9E 87 | 240 157 158 167 | F0 9D 9E A7 | 240 157 159 129 | F0 9D 9F 81 |
Numeric character reference | 𝝭 | 𝝭 | 𝞇 | 𝞇 | 𝞧 | 𝞧 | 𝟁 | 𝟁 |
These characters are used only as mathematical symbols. Stylized Greek text should be encoded using the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Buchholz, 1986 (Ann. Pure Appl. Logic)
- ^ Unicode Code Charts: Greek and Coptic (Range: 0370-03FF)