Unicode Character "‘" U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "‘" at code point U+2018 is Left Single Quotation Mark. It is a character in the General Punctuation block and is part of the Common script. The character is an initial punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "‘" is 0xE2 0x80 0x98 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x2018.

General Properties

Code Point U+2018
Version Added 1.1
Name Left Single Quotation Mark
Unicode 1.0 Name Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark
Block General Punctuation
General Category Initial Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Entity ‘
‘
HTML Decimal Encoding ‘
HTML Hex Encoding ‘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x80 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2018
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002018
C/C++/Java Escape \u2018

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Quotation
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Quotation Mark Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Mid Num Let
Sentence Break Close