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Find more about the U+2018 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+2018 |
|---|---|
| Name | Left Single Quotation Mark |
| Alias | single turned comma quotation mark |
| Category | Initial Punctuation (Pi) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | ‘ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | ‘ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | ‘‘ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \2018 |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+2018Markdown [U+2018](https://everychar.com/code/U+2018) |
| Notes | This is the preferred character (as opposed to 201B). |