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U+2018 · LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Left Single Quotation Mark

  • CodepointU+2018
  • NameLEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  • Decimal8216
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPi — Initial Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2018 (‘) is LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, an opening quotation mark in the General Punctuation 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).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

It has standardized variation sequences that request a specific glyph shape: U+2018 U+FE00 — non-fullwidth form; U+2018 U+FE01 — right-justified fullwidth form. See variation selectors.

How to type ‘

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 983 bytes
UTF-1620181 code unit
UTF-32000020184 bytes
HTML named‘named character reference
HTML named‘named character reference
HTML decimal‘
HTML hex‘
CSS\2018in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2018
JSON\u2018
Python\u2018
Python\N{LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u2018
C / C++\u2018universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2018}
Go\u2018
Ruby\u2018
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8216)
URL-encoded%E2%80%98percent-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+02BCʼModifier Letter Apostrophe 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
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2014—Em Dash U+2015―Horizontal Bar U+2016‖Double Vertical Line U+2017‗Double Low Line U+2019’Right Single Quotation Mark U+201A‚Single Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201B‛Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201C“Left Double Quotation Mark U+201D”Right Double Quotation Mark U+201E„Double Low-9 Quotation Mark