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U+0027 CHARACTER

APOSTROPHE

Quick Facts

Unicode Name APOSTROPHE
Code Point U+0027
Decimal Value 39
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block Basic Latin →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 1 byte 27
UTF-16 Code Unit 0027
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000027
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 27 LE: 27 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 27 LE: 27 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal '
HTML Hexadecimal '
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000027
JavaScript (ES6) \u0027
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0027
JSON Escape \u0027
Python \u0027
PHP "\u{27}"
Java "\u0027"
C / C++ "\u0027"
Rust '\u{27}'
URL Percent-Encoded %27

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0027 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
'
Context: A ' Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
'
Context: A ' Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
'
Context: A ' Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
'
Context: A ' Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name APOSTROPHE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0027

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