RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Codepoint
U+2019
Literal Character
Name
RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Sketch
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Aliases
single comma quotation mark
Control Character
no
Subblock
Iota subscript
UTF-8 byte encoding
e2 80 99
UTF-16 byte encoding
20 19 (big endian)
HTML Entity
’
Perl string literal
\x{2019}
Comments
  • this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
See Also
U+0027: apostrophe
U+02BC: modifier letter apostrophe
U+275C: heavy single comma quotation mark ornament