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)
Informal use
[edit]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
[edit]- Acute accent (´), a diacritic used in many modern written languages
- Geresh (׳), a sign in Hebrew writing
- Apex (´), a diacritic used to indicate a long vowel
Modifier letter punctuation
[edit]- Modifier letter apostrophe (ʼ), a glyph used primarily to represent various glottal sounds.
- Modifier letter left half ring (ʿ), a character used to transliterate the letter ayin, representing the sound ʕ
- Modifier letter right half ring (ʾ)
Other uses as accents, pronunciation, or stress
[edit]- ʻOkina (ʻ), a unicameral consonant letter
- Saltillo (linguistics) (Ꞌ or ꞌ), a glottal stop consonant, ʔ
- Spiritus lenis (᾿)
- Stress (linguistics) (ˈ), relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word
- Ejective consonant (ʼ), used in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Units of measure
[edit]- Prime (symbol) (′), used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, the sciences, linguistics, and music
- Foot (unit), a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement
- Minute, a unit of time
- Minute of arc, a unit of arc
See also
[edit]- Apostrophe (disambiguation)
- Comma, a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages