Identifying Unknown Maths Symbol

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Hello!
I was hoping someone could identify a symbol for me.
It looks like the Hebrew letter 'peh', but rotated 'around the y-axis' (I don't know how else to describe its rotation!); or perhaps like a 'fancy' G.
Does anyone know what the symbol could be?
Many thanks.
 
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[tex]\Phi[/tex], perhaps?

or:
[tex]\Psi[/tex]?
 
My Hebrew isn't very good, I'm not even circumcised.
So perhaps CRGreathouse's suggestion is closer to the mark than mine.
Anyway, this should be an image of "peh":
http://www.bje.org.au/learning/hebrew/alphabet/17peh.html
 
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Thanks for all the responses.
I'm familiar with the Hebrew alphabet, and I know that 'Aleph' is used in mathematics. I am also somewhat familiar with the Grrek alphabet, and I'm sure it wasn't a Greek letter. It looked like 'Peh', and so that's why I made a guess that it might be that letter. Since it doesn't seem to be used in mathematics, I think CRGreathouse's sugegstion might be it. What is that notation for?
 
Thought I'd bump this thread in case someone missed an opportunity to reply. Anyone know the symbol?
I think it is something to do with a lie group, as I found through wiki. Does it denote anyhting else?
 
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Give a link so we can see what you are talking about. Otherwise you are asking us for the mind-reading symbol.
 
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Dave, that post was amusing.
I have already identified that the symbol I am talking about is the symbol CRGreathouse posted.
 
CRGreathouse said:
[tex]\mathfrak{G}[/tex]?
This one? That's a German "Fraktur" letter, basically a "G".