¶PunctuationPunctuationGeneral PunctuationReviewed 2026-08-08

LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Left single quotation mark, the opening curly single quote.

U+2018 · 15.1.0 · Common script

About this character

The left single quotation mark opens quoted spans in typographic text and differs from the ASCII apostrophe.

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FormatValueAction
UTF-8E2 80 98
UTF-162018
HTML‘ / ‘
CSS\002018
JavaScript\u2018
Python\u2018
URL%E2%80%98

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