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Glyph for U+2018
Source: Noto Sans

U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark

U+2018 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as single turned comma quotation mark.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2018 behaves as Quotation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and MidNumLet for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.

Representations

System Representation
8216
UTF-8 E2 80 98
UTF-16 20 18
UTF-32 00 00 20 18
URL-Quoted %E2%80%98
HTML hex reference ‘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ‘
HTML named entity ‘
HTML named entity ‘
alias single turned comma quotation mark
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 AE
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A1 C6
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) D4
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) 91
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) D4
LATEX `
AGL: Latin-1 quoteleft
AGL: Latin-2 quoteleft
AGL: Latin-3 quoteleft
AGL: Latin-4 quoteleft
AGL: Latin-5 quoteleft
Adobe Glyph List quoteleft
digraph '6

Related Characters

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
Block General Punctuation
General Category Initial Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
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+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
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+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
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 MidNumLet
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
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+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R