What is the difference between Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop and Question Mark?

Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop is U+0241 in the Latin Extended-B block. Question Mark is U+003F in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop (U+0241) is Ɂ.

What is the HTML entity for Question Mark?

The HTML entity for Question Mark (U+003F) is ?.

Are Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop and Question Mark the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop is U+0241 (decimal 577) and Question Mark is U+003F (decimal 63). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop and Question Mark?

Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop (U+0241) encodes as C9 81 in UTF-8. Question Mark (U+003F) encodes as 3F in UTF-8.

Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop vs Question Mark

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop

U+0241

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Question Mark

U+003F

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Capital Letter Glottal Stop	Question Mark
Codepoint	`U+0241`	`U+003F`
Decimal	`577`	`63`
HTML Entity	`Ɂ`	`?`
HTML Decimal	`Ɂ`	`?`
HTML Hex	`Ɂ`	`?`
UTF-8	`C9 81`	`3F`
UTF-16	`02 41`	`00 3F`
UTF-32	`00000241`	`0000003F`
CSS Escape	`\241`	`\3F`
JS Escape	`\u0241`	`\u003F`
Python Escape	`\u0241`	`\u003F`
URL Encoded	`%C9%81`	`%3F`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Latin Extended-B`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Latin`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`L`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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