'

Character	'
Unicode name	APOSTROPHE
Codepoint	U+0027
& ← Basic Latin → (

See also -'

Translingual

Symbol

'

1. ’ (apostrophe) or ‛ (leading apostrophe)
2. ‘ or ’ (both the opening and closing single quotation marks)
3. ˈ (IPA primary stress)
4. ʼ (IPA diacritic for ejective consonant)
5. ׳ (Hebrew geresh)
6. ʻ (Hawaiian okina).
7. (mathematics) ′ (prime symbol)

Related terms

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

See also

• `

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /ʔ/
• (letter name): IPA: /alef/

Letter

'

1. The first letter of the Somali alphabet, called alef and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

1. The first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is followed by B.
2. Rarely used in initial position.

See also

• (Latin script letters) '', Bb, Tt, Jj, Xx, KHkh, Dd, Rr, Ss, SHsh, DHdh, Cc, Gg, Ff, Qq, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ww, Hh, Yy, Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu