U+037E ";" Greek Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+037E ";" Greek Question Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Greek language that visually resembles a semicolon but functions as a question mark. It is encoded separately from the standard semicolon (U+003B) to allow for proper linguistic distinction, preventing misinterpretation in digital text processing and localization. While often confused with the semicolon in other writing systems, its correct usage involves placing it at the end of a question in Greek, where it serves the same syntactic role as the English question mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+037E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Greek Question Mark |
| Block | Greek and Coptic |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | ";" U+003B Semicolon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ; |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ; |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x037E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000037E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u037e |
Unicode Properties
| Full Composition Exclusion | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Infix Numeric Separator |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | ";" U+003B Semicolon |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | ";" U+003B Semicolon |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Mid Num |
| Sentence Break | SContinue |