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Glyph for U+0027
Source: Noto Sans

U+0027 Apostrophe

U+0027 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as apostrophe-quote (1.0), single quote and APL quote.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 77 other glyphs. In text U+0027 behaves as Quotation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Single Quote for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “typewriter apostrophe” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: apostrophe, quote, single quote.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The apostrophe (' or ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes:

  • The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't".
  • The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "the twins'‌ coats").

It is also used in a few distinctive cases for the marking of plurals, e.g. "p's and q's" or Oakland A's.

The word "apostrophe" comes ultimately from Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía], '[the accent of] turning away or elision'), through Latin and French.

Representations

System Representation
39
UTF-8 27
UTF-16 00 27
UTF-32 00 00 00 27
URL-Quoted %27
HTML hex reference '
HTML named entity '
alias apostrophe-quote (1.0)
alias single quote
alias APL quote
LATEX \textquotesingle
AGL: Latin-1 quotesingle
AGL: Latin-2 quotesingle
AGL: Latin-3 quotesingle
AGL: Latin-4 quotesingle
AGL: Latin-5 quotesingle
Adobe Glyph List quotesingle
digraph '

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name APOSTROPHE
Unicode 1 Name APOSTROPHE-QUOTE
Block Basic Latin
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Case Folding Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Close
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Single Quote
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Narrow
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Quotation
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R