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Technical information

Symbol'
NameApostrophe
Unicode numberU+0027
CategoryASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ', or U+0027, is known as the "Apostrophe". It belongs to the "Basic Latin" block, which is the standard ASCII set of characters used in English and other Western languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category. Visually, it is a small mark that generally appears at the top of the line of text. The apostrophe has various uses in English and other languages. It is used to indicate contractions, where a letter or letters have been omitted from a word (e.g., "don't" for "do not", "it's" for "it is" or "it has"). It is also used to show possession (e.g., "John's book" to mean "the book of John"). In some cases, it can be used to denote plurals for lowercase letters and some numbers (e.g., "Mind your p's and q's", "the 1990's"). The specific usage of the apostrophe can depend on grammatical rules and style guidelines.

Encoding

HTML Entity'
HTML Entity (hex)'
HTML Entity (named)'
URL Escape Code%27
UTF-8 (hex)0x27
UTF-8 (binary)00100111
UTF-160x0027
UTF-320x00000027

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0027"
CSS Code\0027
JavaScript"\u0027"
Perl\x{0027}
Python 2u"\u0027"
Python 3\u0027
Ruby\u{0027}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ' in sentence and in bold like this ' and in italic like this '.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#39;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0027";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References