U+0027 APOSTROPHE

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Straight single quote or typewriter apostrophe on the keyboard, used for contractions, possessives, quotes and strings in code.

Codepoint

U+0027

Name

APOSTROPHE

Block

Basic Latin

Script

Common

Category

Other Punctuation (Po)

Unicode version

1.1

Plane

BMP

HTML

' '

CSS

\27

UTF-8

27

UTF-16

0027

UTF-32

00000027

Also known as

APL quote, apostrophe-quote (1.0), single quote

Related characters

• &U+0026AMPERSAND
• (U+0028LEFT PARENTHESIS
• %U+0025PERCENT SIGN
• )U+0029RIGHT PARENTHESIS
• $U+0024DOLLAR SIGN
• *U+002AASTERISK
• #U+0023NUMBER SIGN
• +U+002BPLUS SIGN
• "U+0022QUOTATION MARK
• ,U+002CCOMMA
• !U+0021EXCLAMATION MARK
• -U+002DHYPHEN-MINUS