U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE: ◌ʼ – Unicode

U+02BC was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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. The character is also known as apostrophe.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+02BC behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The modifier letter apostrophe ʼ is a letter 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	â—ŒÊ¼
alias	apostrophe
L^AT_EX	'
AGL: Latin-4	uni02BC
AGL: Latin-5	uni02BC
Adobe Glyph List	afii57929
Adobe Glyph List	apostrophemod

Related Characters

Latin Small Letter N Preceded By Apostrophe

Confusables

Apostrophe

Elsewhere

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Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Spacing Modifier Letters
General Category	Modifier Letter
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Lowercase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Uppercase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Titlecase Mapping	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Case Folding	Modifier Letter 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	Modifier Letter 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	✘
Ideographic	✘
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	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
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	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R

U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe

Representations

Related Characters

Confusables

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