APOSTROPHE

Codepoint
U+0027
Literal Character
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Name
APOSTROPHE
Sketch
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Aliases
apostrophe-quote (1.0)
single quote
APL quote
Control Character
no
Block
Basic Latin
Subblock
ASCII punctuation and symbols
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
Used In
Name Composed Of
FULLWIDTH APOSTROPHE <wide>
APOSTROPHE (U+0027)