U+2018
CHARACTER
LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Category:
Initial Punctuation (Pi)
Block:
General Punctuation
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 1.1
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+2018
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| Decimal Value |
8216
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| General Category | Initial Punctuation (Pi) → | |
| Unicode Block | General Punctuation → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 1.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
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Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 3 bytes |
E2 80 98
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
2018
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| UTF-32 4 bytes |
00002018
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| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
20 18
LE: 18 20
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| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 20 18
LE: 18 20 00 00
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Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
‘
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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
‘
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| HTML Named Entity |
‘
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| CSS Escape |
\002018
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u2018
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\u2018
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| JSON Escape |
\u2018
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| Python |
\u2018
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| PHP |
"\u{2018}"
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| Java |
"\u2018"
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| C / C++ |
"\u2018"
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| Rust |
'\u{2018}'
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| URL Percent-Encoded |
%E2%80%98
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Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
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|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
ON — Other Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Visual rendering of U+2018 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.
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