LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Codepoint

U+2018

Literal Character

‘

Name

LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Sketch

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Aliases

single turned comma quotation mark

Control Character

no

Block

General Punctuation

Subblock

Quotation marks and apostrophe

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 80 98

UTF-16 byte encoding

20 18 (big endian)

HTML Entity

‘

Perl string literal

\x{2018}

Comments

• this is the preferred character (as opposed to 201B)

See Also

U+0027: apostrophe
U+02BB: modifier letter turned comma
U+275B: heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament