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U+037E · GREEK QUESTION MARK

Greek Question Mark

  • CodepointU+037E
  • NameGREEK QUESTION MARK
  • Decimal894
  • BlockGreek and Coptic (U+0370–U+03FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+037E (;) is GREEK QUESTION MARK, a punctuation mark in the Greek and Coptic block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a canonical singleton: Unicode treats it as identical to U+003B ;, and every normalization form (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD) replaces it with that character. Text that must round-trip exactly should avoid it. See the normalization guide.

How to type ;

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CD BE2 bytes
UTF-16037E1 code unit
UTF-320000037E4 bytes
HTML decimal;
HTML hex;
CSS\37Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u037E
JSON\u037E
Python\u037E
Python\N{GREEK QUESTION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u037E
C / C++\u037Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{37E}
Go\u037E
Ruby\u037E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(894)
URL-encoded%CD%BEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCU+003B ;
NFDU+003B ;
NFKCU+003B ;
NFKDU+003B ;
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+003B;Semicolon
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Nearby in Greek and Coptic

All in block →
U+037AͺGreek Ypogegrammeni U+037BͻGreek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037CͼGreek Small Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037DͽGreek Small Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol U+037FͿGreek Capital Letter Yot U+0384΄Greek Tonos