LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Property Value
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 Letter
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