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U+02BC · MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

Modifier Letter Apostrophe

  • CodepointU+02BC
  • NameMODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
  • Decimal700
  • BlockSpacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0–U+02FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLm — Modifier Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02BC (ʼ) is MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE, a modifier letter in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

How to type ʼ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CA BC2 bytes
UTF-1602BC1 code unit
UTF-32000002BC4 bytes
HTML decimalʼ
HTML hexʼ
CSS\2BCin content: "…"
JavaScript\u02BC
JSON\u02BC
Python\u02BC
Python\N{MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE}by name
Java / C#\u02BC
C / C++\u02BCuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2BC}
Go\u02BC
Ruby\u02BC
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(700)
URL-encoded%CA%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0027'Apostrophe U+0060`Grave Accent U+00B4´Acute Accent U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BEʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring U+02C8ˈModifier Letter Vertical Line U+02CAˊModifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CBˋModifier Letter Grave Accent U+02F4˴Modifier Letter Middle Grave Accent U+0374ʹGreek Numeral Sign U+0384΄Greek Tonos U+055A՚Armenian Apostrophe U+055D՝Armenian Comma U+05D9יHebrew Letter Yod
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Characters built on ʼ

U+0149ʼnLatin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
U+02B6ʶModifier Letter Small Capital Inverted R U+02B7ʷModifier Letter Small W U+02B8ʸModifier Letter Small Y U+02B9ʹModifier Letter Prime U+02BAʺModifier Letter Double Prime U+02BBʻModifier Letter Turned Comma U+02BDʽModifier Letter Reversed Comma U+02BEʾModifier Letter Right Half Ring U+02BFʿModifier Letter Left Half Ring U+02C0ˀModifier Letter Glottal Stop U+02C1ˁModifier Letter Reversed Glottal Stop U+02C2˂Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead