"‘" U+2018 Left Single Quotation Mark

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Unicode Data

The Unicode character U+2018, displayed as ‘ and named "Left Single Quotation Mark" is located in the General Punctuation block. This character was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 (1993). Find its HTML entities, UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, hex values, and copy-paste details below.

Name:: Left Single Quotation Mark
Category:: Initial Quote Punctuation
Block:: General Punctuation
Script:: Common
Bidirectional:: Other Neutrals
Mirrored:: No
Unicode Version:: Unicode 1.1

Character Encodings

HTML Entity - Named:

‘

&OpenCurlyQuote;

HTML Entity - Decimal:

‘

HTML Entity - Hex:

‘

Unicode:

U+2018;

Decimal:

8216

CSS:

\002018

Javascript:

\u2018

Perl:

\x{2018}

Ruby:

\u{2018}

Python:

u'\u2018'

UTF-8 Encoding:

E28098

UTF-16 Encoding:

2018

UTF-32 Encoding:

00002018