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Glyph for U+0027
Source: Noto Sans

U+0027 Apostrophe

U+0027 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. In Hebrew text this single quote joins with other Hebrew letters to form a word. U+0027 prohibits a line break around it. The glyph can be confused with 77 other glyphs.

The CLDR project calls this character “typewriter apostrophe” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, 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 three 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")
  • Use as a single quotation mark

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.

It is also used informally to indicate the units of foot, minutes of time, and minutes of arc, although in these uses, the prime symbol is generally preferred.

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
Nº 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 (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) APOSTROPHE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) APOSTROPHE-QUOTE
Block (blk) Basic Latin
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+0027 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+0027 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) ✘
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+0027 Apostrophe
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0027 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) Close
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Single Quote
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+0027 Apostrophe
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) narrow
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Quotation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+0027 Apostrophe
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R