GRAVE ACCENT

Property Value
Codepoint U+0060
Literal Character `
Name GRAVE ACCENT
Sketch
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Aliases backtick, backquote
Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
UTF-8 byte encoding 60
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 60 (big endian)
HTML Entity -
Perl string literal \x{60}
Comments
  • this is a spacing character
  • in some technical contexts functions as opening quote, paired with apostrophe
See Also U+00B4: acute accent
U+02CB: modifier letter grave accent
U+0300: combining grave accent
U+1FEF: greek varia
U+2018: left single quotation mark
U+2035: reversed prime