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Glyph for U+02BC
Source: Noto Sans

U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe

U+02BC was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+02B0 to U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Latin, Lisu, Thai, Toto. The character is also known as apostrophe.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+02BC forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The modifier letter apostrophe ʼ is a letter found in Unicode encoding, used primarily for various glottal sounds.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 700
UTF-8 CA BC
UTF-16 02 BC
UTF-32 00 00 02 BC
URL-Quoted %CA%BC
HTML hex reference ʼ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌ʼ
alias apostrophe
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 B6 33
LATEX '
AGL: Latin-4 uni02BC
AGL: Latin-5 uni02BC
Adobe Glyph List afii57929
Adobe Glyph List apostrophemod

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category (gc) Modifier Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✔
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✔
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Script Extension (scx) Bengali Cyrillic Devanagari Latin Lisu Thai Toto
Vertical Orientation (vo) R