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Apostrophe

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

About this character

Apostrophe belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+0027. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+0027
Hex
0027
Decimal
39
HTML
'
CSS
\27
JavaScript
\u0027
Python
\u0027
UTF-8
27

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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