Left Single Quotation Mark Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark is the Unicode character ‘ at codepoint U+2018 in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Left Single Quotation Mark Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark
To use the Left Single Quotation Mark Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark symbol (‘) in HTML, insert the
entity ‘ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ‘ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2018';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2018' evaluates to ‘. In Python source, write '\u2018'.
The character encodes to E2 80 98 as UTF-8 bytes and 2018 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8216.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.