’

Character	’
Unicode name	RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
General Punctuation	U+2019

Translingual

Alternative forms

• '
• (transliterated Cyrillic): ′

Symbol

’

1. End of a quotation.
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 formally the Pacific. In most Polynesian languages, the convention has shifted to the okina <ʻ>.
5. (informal) A substitute for the combining diacritic ʼ used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for ejective and other glottalized consonants.

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

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English

Symbol

’

1. Indicating a possessive, with s (’s).
2. Indicating the omission of letters.

   tho’, they’ll, ’65

Usage notes

• When indicating a possessive and omission of letters, this symbol is called an apostrophe.

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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).