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U+2019 CHARACTER

RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Code Point U+2019
Decimal Value 8217
General Category Final Punctuation (Pf) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 99
UTF-16 Code Unit 2019
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002019
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 19 LE: 19 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 19 LE: 19 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ’
HTML Hexadecimal ’
HTML Named Entity ’
CSS Escape \002019
JavaScript (ES6) \u2019
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2019
JSON Escape \u2019
Python \u2019
PHP "\u{2019}"
Java "\u2019"
C / C++ "\u2019"
Rust '\u{2019}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%99

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+2019 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 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

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

Identifier U+2019

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