# ' U+0027 APOSTROPHE

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

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `'` |
| Codepoint | U+0027 |
| Name | APOSTROPHE |
| Also known as | APL quote, apostrophe-quote (1.0), single quote |
| Block | [Basic Latin](https://unicodekit.com/block/basic-latin) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `'` `'` |
| CSS | `\27` |
| JavaScript | `\u0027` |
| UTF-8 | 27 |
| UTF-16 | 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

## Related characters

- & [U+0026 AMPERSAND](https://unicodekit.com/char/0026)
- ( [U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/0028)
- % [U+0025 PERCENT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/0025)
- ) [U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/0029)
- $ [U+0024 DOLLAR SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/0024)
- * [U+002A ASTERISK](https://unicodekit.com/char/002A)
- # [U+0023 NUMBER SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/0023)
- + [U+002B PLUS SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/002B)
- " [U+0022 QUOTATION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/0022)
- , [U+002C COMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/002C)
- ! [U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/0021)
- - [U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS](https://unicodekit.com/char/002D)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/0027 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/0027