MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA

Codepoint

U+02BB

Literal Character

ʻ

Name

MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Spacing Modifier Letters

Subblock

Miscellaneous phonetic modifiers

UTF-8 byte encoding

ca bb

UTF-16 byte encoding

02 bb (big endian)

HTML Entity

ʻ

Perl string literal

\x{2BB}

Comments

• typographical alternate for 02BD or 02BF
• used in some Polynesian orthographies for glottal stop
• HawaiÊ»ian: Ê»okina
• Tongan: fakauÊ»a

See Also

U+0312: combining turned comma above
U+07F5: nko low tone apostrophe
U+2018: left single quotation mark

Wikipedia

Modifier letter turned comma (en)