# ʼ U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Apostrophe used as a letter, marking glottal stop or ejective consonants in many alphabets; not the punctuation apostrophe.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `ʼ` |
| Codepoint | U+02BC |
| Name | MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE |
| Also known as | apostrophe |
| Block | [Spacing Modifier Letters](https://unicodekit.com/block/spacing-modifier-letters) |
| Script | Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Latin, Lisu, Thai, Toto |
| Category | Modifier Letter (Lm) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `ʼ` `ʼ` |
| CSS | `\2BC` |
| JavaScript | `\u02BC` |
| UTF-8 | CA BC |
| UTF-16 | 02BC |

## Notes

- glottal stop, glottalization, ejective
- many languages use this as a letter of their alphabets
- used as a tone marker in Bodo and Dogri
- indicates vowel elongation, or various truncations and ellipsis in Maithili
- used as a modifier letter in the Lisu script
- 2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe

## Related characters

- ʻ [U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/02BB)
- ʽ [U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/02BD)
- ʺ [U+02BA MODIFIER LETTER DOUBLE PRIME](https://unicodekit.com/char/02BA)
- ʾ [U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING](https://unicodekit.com/char/02BE)
- ʹ [U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME](https://unicodekit.com/char/02B9)
- ʿ [U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING](https://unicodekit.com/char/02BF)
- ʸ [U+02B8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y](https://unicodekit.com/char/02B8)
- ˀ [U+02C0 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP](https://unicodekit.com/char/02C0)
- ʷ [U+02B7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W](https://unicodekit.com/char/02B7)
- ˁ [U+02C1 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP](https://unicodekit.com/char/02C1)
- ʶ [U+02B6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL INVERTED R](https://unicodekit.com/char/02B6)
- ˂ [U+02C2 MODIFIER LETTER LEFT ARROWHEAD](https://unicodekit.com/char/02C2)

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