Modifier Letter Apostrophe ʼ

U+02BC

Symbol Meaning

Modifier Letter Apostrophe. Spacing Modifier Letters.

The symbol “Modifier Letter Apostrophe” is included in the “Miscellaneous phonetic modifiers” subblock of the “Spacing Modifier Letters” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Synonyms

apostrophe.

Unicode Name	Modifier Letter Apostrophe
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Spacing Modifier Letters
Unicode Subblock	Miscellaneous phonetic modifiers
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	02BC
Simple case change	02BC
Alphabetic	+
Case_Ignorable	+
ID_Start	+
ID_Continue	+
XID_Start	+
XID_Continue	+
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Diacritic	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	CA BC	202 188	51900	11001010 10111100
UTF-16BE	02 BC	2 188	700	00000010 10111100
UTF-16LE	BC 02	188 2	48130	10111100 00000010
UTF-32BE	00 00 02 BC	0 0 2 188	700	00000000 00000000 00000010 10111100
UTF-32LE	BC 02 00 00	188 2 0 0	3154247680	10111100 00000010 00000000 00000000