Right Single Quotation Mark
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0146 on the numeric keypad to insert right single quotation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+0146
- HTML entity
- ’
- Unicode
- U+2019
About this symbol
The right single quotation mark closes a quotation, as in ‘hello’, and it is also the correct apostrophe, as in it’s and Brad’s. Word processors put it in place of the keyboard’s straight mark as you type.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
- Also called
- Single comma quotation mark
- Type
- Closing 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 to use for apostrophe
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