MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Property Value
Codepoint U+02BC
Literal Character ΚΌ
Name MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
Sketch
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Aliases apostrophe
Control Character no
Block Spacing Modifier Letters
Subblock ASCII punctuation
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, Dogri, and Maithili
  • 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