What is the difference between Greek Question Mark and Semicolon?

Greek Question Mark is U+037E in the Greek and Coptic block. Semicolon is U+003B 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 Greek Question Mark?

The HTML entity for Greek Question Mark (U+037E) is ;.

What is the HTML entity for Semicolon?

The HTML entity for Semicolon (U+003B) is ;.

Are Greek Question Mark and Semicolon the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Question Mark is U+037E (decimal 894) and Semicolon is U+003B (decimal 59). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Question Mark and Semicolon?

Greek Question Mark (U+037E) encodes as CD BE in UTF-8. Semicolon (U+003B) encodes as 3B in UTF-8.

Greek Question Mark vs Semicolon

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.

Greek Question Mark

U+037E

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Semicolon

U+003B

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Question Mark	Semicolon
Codepoint	`U+037E`	`U+003B`
Decimal	`894`	`59`
HTML Entity	`;`	`;`
HTML Decimal	`;`	`;`
HTML Hex	`;`	`;`
UTF-8	`CD BE`	`3B`
UTF-16	`03 7E`	`00 3B`
UTF-32	`0000037E`	`0000003B`
CSS Escape	`\37E`	`\3B`
JS Escape	`\u037E`	`\u003B`
Python Escape	`\u037E`	`\u003B`
URL Encoded	`%CD%BE`	`%3B`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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