U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark
U+2018 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2018 prohibits a line break around it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “left apostrophe” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, 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 identify 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 glyph. 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Left Single Quotation Mark | |
| 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 |