' (disambiguation)
The ' character has number 39 in ASCII and code U+0027 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 ‘ (left single quotation mark) and ’ (right single quotation mark) characters)
It is often used in informal contexts to replace other similar looking characters that include:
Accents, pronunciation, or stress
Diacritical marks
- Acute accent ´, a diacritic used in many modern written languages
- Geresh ׳, a sign in Hebrew writing
- Grave accent `, a diacritical mark in many written languages
- Apex ´, a diacritic used to indicate a long vowel
Modifier letter punctuation
- Modifier letter apostrophe ʼ, a glyph
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Apostrophe (disambiguation)
- Comma, a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages
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