’

See also: ' [U+0027 APOSTROPHE], ʹ [U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME], and ′ [U+2032 PRIME]

Character	’ U+2019, ’
Name	RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Block	General Punctuation
← ‘ [U+2018] [U+201A] ‚ →

Translingual

Alternative forms

• '
• (transliterated Cyrillic): ′

Punctuation mark

’

1. Used as a quotation mark in some languages.
   1. ‘ ’
   2. ’ ‘
   3. ’ ’
   4. ‚ ’
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 formerly the Pacific. In most Polynesian languages, the convention has shifted to the okina <ʻ>.
5. (informal) A substitute for the diacritic ʼ used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for ejective and other glottalized consonants.

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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Belarusian

Symbol

’

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

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Ukrainian

Symbol

’

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).