'

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

See also: ‘, ’, ʻ, and -'

Translingual

Punctuation mark

'

1. Any of multiple characters with a similar shape.
   1. ’ (apostrophe)
   2. ‛ (leading apostrophe)
   3. Used as a quotation mark in some languages. See ' '.
   4. (IPA) ˈ (primary stress)
   5. ׳ (Hebrew geresh)
   6. ' (foot length unit symbol)
2. Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an acute or grave accent, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.
   • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cafe'.
   • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:caffe'.

Related terms

• (diacritical mark): ", :

Diacritical mark

'

1. Any of multiple characters with a similar shape.
   1. ׳ (Hebrew geresh)
   2. (IPA) ʼ (ejective consonant)

Letter

'

1. ʻ (Hawaiian okina)

Symbol

’

1. Replaces one or more letters which have been removed from a written word, often but not always because they are not being pronounced.

   English: don't (do not), o'er (over), fo'c's'le (forecastle), tho' (though); German: Leut' (Leute)

   1. Replaces letter(s) when two or more words are contracted into one word.

      English: I'm (I am); French: qu'il (que il), à c't'heure (à cette heure); German: gibt's (gibt es), auf'm (auf dem)

2. Similarly replaces one or more numbers which have been removed.

   '95 (1995)

3. (mathematics) ′ (prime symbol)
4. (time, angles) symbol representing the minute, placed after the value of the seconds in a term to indicate minutes count

Coordinate terms

• (time): "
• (angles): " , °

See also

quotation marks and quotation dashes in all languages (edit)

Afrikaans: “ ”, ‘ ’, „ ”, ‚ ’ Albanian: „ “, ‘ ’ Arabic: “ ”, « » Armenian: « » Azerbaijani: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, " ", ‘ ’, ' ' Basque: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, ‘ ’ Belarusian: « », “ ” Bulgarian: „ “, ’ ’, ‘ ’, « », ’ ’, ‘ ’, — Catalan: « », “ ”, ‘ ’ Chinese: “ ”, ‘ ’, 「 」, 『 』 Czech: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Danish: » «, „ “, › ‹, ‚ ’, ” ”, ’ ’ Dutch: ‘ ’, “ ”, ‚ ’, „ ” English: “ ”, ‘ ’ Esperanto: “ ”, ‘ ’, — Estonian: „ “, « » Filipino: “ ”, ‘ ’ Finnish: ” ”, ’ ’, » » French: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, — Georgian: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ German: „ “, ‚ ‘   ;   » «, › ‹   ;   regional: « », ‹ › Greek: « », “ ”, — Hungarian: „ ”, » «, — Icelandic: „ “, ‚ ‘ Indonesian: “ ”, ‘ ’

Interlingua: “ ”, ‘ ’ Irish: “ ”, ‘ ’ Italian: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, ‘ ’ Japanese: 「 」, 『 』 Korean: “ ”, ‘ ’, 『 』, 「 」 Latvian: « », „ “ Lithuanian: « », „ “ Lower Sorbian: „ “, ‚ ‘ Macedonian: „ “, ’ ‘ Norwegian: « », „ ”, ’ ’, ‚ ’ Persian: « » Polish: „ ”, « », » «, — Portuguese: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », — Russian: « », „ “, „ ”, — Serbo-Croatian: „ ”, ” ”, ‘ ’, ’ ’, „ “, » « Slovak: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Slovene: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹ Spanish: « », “ ”, ‘ ’, — Swedish: ” ”, ’ ’, » », » «, ’ ’, — Thai: “ ”, ‘ ’ Turkish: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », › ‹, — Ukrainian: « », „ ”, ‚ ‘ Vietnamese: “ ”, — Welsh: ‘ ’, “ ”

quotation marks - all matched-pairs

Curved double quotation marks: “ ”, ” ”, „ ”, „ “ Curved single quotation marks: ‘ ’, ’ ’, ‚ ’, ‚ ‘, ’ ‘ Straight quotation marks: " " Apostrophes: ' '

Guillemets: « », » «, » » Single guillemets: ‹ ›, › ‹ Corner brackets: 「 」, 『 』

quotation marks and quotation dashes - all single characters

Curved double quotation marks: “, ”, „ Curved single quotation marks: ‘, ’, ‚ Straight quotation mark: " Apostrophe: '

Guillemets: «, » Single guillemets: ‹, › Corner brackets: 「, 」, 『, 』 Quotation dashes: — (em dash), ― (horizontal bar), – (en dash)

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces ( { } ) brackets ( [ ] ) colon ( : ) comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) fraction slash ( ⁄ ) guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) ) period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / ) space (   )

• `
• "

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English

Particle

’

1. See -'.

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Esperanto

Punctuation mark

'

1. (chiefly poetic) Used to indicate omission of the a in la to form l'.
2. (chiefly poetic) Used to indicate omission of the final -o of nominative singular nouns.
   • 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, "La Espero":

     al la mond' eterne militanta ĝi promesas sanktan harmonion.

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Polish

Alternative forms

• ’

Punctuation mark

'

1. Put before the declension suffix of a foreign name, if the preceding letter is silent.

   Harry'ego /xaˈrɛ.ɡɔ/ — genitive case of Harry

   Georges'em /ˈʐɔr.ʐɛm/ — instrumental case of Georges

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Scots

Symbol

’

1. Replaces one or more letters which have been removed from a word.

   eneu' (eneuch, "enough"), lea' (leave, "leave")

2. The apologetic apostrophe: inserted into a Scots word to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word, .

   de'il (deil, "devil")

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Somali

Pronunciation

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

Letter

' upper case (lower case ')

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

Usage notes

• This is the first letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is followed by B. It is rarely used in the 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