U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
U+2018 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the 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, left apostrophe, quote, single quote, smart quote.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Quotation marks (also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking 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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 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
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Initial Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidNumLet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Quotation | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| R |