APOSTROPHE

Property Value
Codepoint U+0027
Literal Character '
Name APOSTROPHE
Sketch
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Aliases apostrophe-quote (1.0)
single quote
APL quote
Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
UTF-8 byte encoding 27
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 27 (big endian)
HTML Entity '
LaTeX expression '
Perl string literal \x{27}
Comments
  • neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
  • 2019 is preferred for apostrophe
  • preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018 & 2019
  • 05F3 is preferred for geresh when writing Hebrew
See Also U+02B9: modifier letter prime
U+02BC: modifier letter apostrophe
U+02C8: modifier letter vertical line
U+0301: combining acute accent
U+030D: combining vertical line above
U+05F3: hebrew punctuation geresh
U+2018: left single quotation mark
U+2019: right single quotation mark
U+2032: prime
U+A78C: latin small letter saltillo