MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Codepoint

U+02BC

Literal Character

ʼ

Name

MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Sketch

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Aliases

apostrophe

Control Character

no

Block

Spacing Modifier Letters

Subblock

Miscellaneous phonetic modifiers

UTF-8 byte encoding

ca bc

UTF-16 byte encoding

02 bc (big endian)

HTML Entity

ʼ

Perl string literal

\x{2BC}

Comments

• glottal stop, glottalization, ejective
• many languages use this as a letter of their alphabets
• used as a tone marker in Bodo and Dogri
• indicates vowel elongation, or various truncations and ellipsis in Maithili
• used as a modifier letter in the Lisu script
• 2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe

See Also

U+0027: apostrophe
U+0313: combining comma above
U+0315: combining comma above right
U+055A: armenian apostrophe
U+07F4: nko high tone apostrophe
U+1FBF: greek psili
U+2019: right single quotation mark

Wikipedia

Modifier letter apostrophe (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
ʼn	LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE	<compat> MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE (U+02BC) LATIN SMALL LETTER N (U+006E)