In the Unix world, a symbolic is special type of file that references to another file or directory. Symbolic links are also known to others as symlink or softlink. To create a symbolic link, the ln -s command is used to reference a file to another like below.

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin

To delete a symbolic link

sudo rm /var/www/phpmyadmin
# or
sudo unlink /var/www/phpmyadmin