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U+0027 – Apostrophe

Find more about the U+0027 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.

CodepointU+0027
NameApostrophe
Aliasapostrophe-quote (1.0), single quote, APL quote
CategoryOther Punctuation (Po)
ScriptCommon
BlockBasic Latin
PlaneBasic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
VersionUnicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Numeric Character Reference'
Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference'
HTML Named Character Reference
(HTML Named Entity)
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CSS Character Reference
(CSS Escape Code)
\0027
Links
Plain
https://everychar.com/code/U+0027
Markdown
[U+0027](https://everychar.com/code/U+0027)
Notes

Neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage.

2019 is preferred for apostrophe.

Preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018 & 2019.

05F3 is preferred for geresh when writing Hebrew.