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The ' character is represented by 39 in ASCII and U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE in Unicode. It is used as:
- Apostrophe (as straight version of the ’ character), a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark
- Single quotation mark (as straight version of the ‘ and ’ characters)
Being supplied as standard on many keyboard layouts, it is often used in informal contexts to replace other similar looking characters that include:
Diacritical marks
Modifier letter punctuation
Other uses as accents, pronunciation, or stress
- ʻOkina (ʻ), commonly representing a phonemic glottal stop in various Polynesian languages
- Ejective consonant (ʼ), used in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Greek diacritics (´)(`)(῾)(᾿), marks added to letters in Greek (particularly Ancient Greek) sometimes in combination (eg. ῞ or ῏)
- Saltillo (linguistics) (Ꞌ or ꞌ), a glottal stop consonant, ʔ
- Stress (linguistics) (ˈ), relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word
Units of measure
- Prime (symbol) (′), used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music
See also
Topics referred to by the same term