Apostrophe
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 39 on the numeric keypad to insert apostrophe.
- Alt code
- Alt+39
- HTML entity
- '
- Unicode
- U+0027
About this symbol
The straight apostrophe is a typewriter compromise: one key stood for the apostrophe, both single quotation marks, and the foot and minute signs. Typographers replace it with the curly ’ and ‘, which this site uses throughout.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- APOSTROPHE
- Also called
- Apostrophe-quote (1.0), Single quote, APL quote
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode 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
- ʹ Modifier Letter Prime U+02B9ʼ Modifier Letter Apostrophe U+02BCˈ Modifier Letter Vertical Line U+02C8◌́ Combining Acute Accent U+0301◌̍ Combining Vertical Line Above U+030D׳ Hebrew Punctuation Geresh U+05F3ꞌ Latin Small Letter Saltillo U+A78C
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