Left Single Quotation Mark
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0145 on the numeric keypad to insert left single quotation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+0145
- HTML entity
- ‘
- Unicode
- U+2018
About this symbol
The left single quotation mark opens a quotation in British English, as in ‘hello’, and a quotation inside a quotation in American English. It is shaped like a raised 6; its partner ’ closes it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
- Also called
- Single turned comma quotation mark
- Type
- Opening quotation mark
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Quotation marks and apostrophe
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is the preferred character (as opposed to 201B)
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