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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
General Punctuation	U+2019

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Symbol 2.2 Usage notes 3 Belarusian 3.1 Symbol 4 Ukrainian 4.1 Symbol

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• '
• (transliterated Cyrillic): ′

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’

1. A closing quotation mark.
2. (in transliterated Cyrillic text) Transliteration of the soft sign (ь), indicating palatalization of preceding consonants.
3. (in transliterated Arabic and Hebrew text) Transliteration of the glottal stop (hamza).
4. A glottal stop in the orthography of numerous languages of America, Africa, and formally the Pacific. In most Polynesian languages, the convention has shifted to the okina <ʻ>.
5. (informal) A substitute for the combining diacritic ʼ used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for ejective and other glottalized consonants.

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( ⟨ ⟩ ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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’

1. Indicating a possessive, with s (’s).
2. Indicating the omission of letters.

   tho’, they’ll, ’65

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When indicating a possessive and omission of letters, this symbol is called an apostrophe.

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[edit] Belarusian

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’

1. Indicating the non-palatalization of the preceding consonant before a soft vowel.

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’ (апостроф, apóstrof)

1. Indicating the non-palatalization of the preceding consonant before a soft vowel.
2. Representing the apostrophe in names transliterated from the Roman alphabet, for example Кот-д’Івуар (Côte d’Ivoire).