克氏符号，全称克里斯托费尔符号（Christoffel symbols），在数学和物理中，是从度量张量导出的列维-奇维塔联络（Levi-Civita connection）的坐标表达式。因埃尔温·布鲁诺·克里斯托费尔（1829年-1900年）命名。克氏符号在每当进行涉及到几何的实用演算时都会被用到，因为他们使得非常复杂的演算不被搞混。不幸的是，他们很难看，并要求对细节的仔细关注。相反，无下标的形式化的列维-奇维塔联络的概念是相当漂亮，并允许定理用典雅的方式表达，但是在实用演算中没有什幺用处。

In mathematics and physics, the Christoffel symbols are an array of numbers describing a metric connection. The metric connection is a specialization of the affine connection to surfaces or other manifolds endowed with a metric, allowing distances to be measured on that surface. In differential geometry, an affine connection can be defined without any reference to a metric, and many additional concepts follow: parallel transport, covariant derivatives, geodesics, etc. also do not require the concept of a metric. However, when a metric is available, these concepts can be directly tied to the "shape" of the manifold itself; that shape is determined by how the tangent space is attached to the cotangent space by the metric tensor. Abstractly, one would say that the manifold has an associated (orthonormal) frame bundle, with each "frame" being a possible choice of a coordinate frame. An invariant metric implies that the structure group of the frame bundle is the orthogonal group SO(m,n). As a result, such a manifold is necessarily a (pseudo-)Riemannian manifold. The Christoffel symbols provide a concrete representation of the connection of (pseudo-)Riemannian geometry in terms of coordinates on the manifold. Additional concepts, such as parallel transport, geodesics, etc. can then be expressed in terms of Christoffel symbols.