What is the difference between Modifier Letter Vertical Line and Apostrophe?

Modifier Letter Vertical Line is U+02C8 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Apostrophe is U+0027 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Modifier Letter Vertical Line?

The HTML entity for Modifier Letter Vertical Line (U+02C8) is ˈ.

What is the HTML entity for Apostrophe?

The HTML entity for Apostrophe (U+0027) is '.

Are Modifier Letter Vertical Line and Apostrophe the same Unicode character?

No. Modifier Letter Vertical Line is U+02C8 (decimal 712) and Apostrophe is U+0027 (decimal 39). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Modifier Letter Vertical Line and Apostrophe?

Modifier Letter Vertical Line (U+02C8) encodes as CB 88 in UTF-8. Apostrophe (U+0027) encodes as 27 in UTF-8.

Modifier Letter Vertical Line vs Apostrophe

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Modifier Letter Vertical Line

U+02C8

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Apostrophe

U+0027

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Property Comparison

Property	Modifier Letter Vertical Line	Apostrophe
Codepoint	`U+02C8`	`U+0027`
Decimal	`712`	`39`
HTML Entity	`ˈ`	`'`
HTML Decimal	`ˈ`	`'`
HTML Hex	`ˈ`	`'`
UTF-8	`CB 88`	`27`
UTF-16	`02 C8`	`00 27`
UTF-32	`000002C8`	`00000027`
CSS Escape	`\2C8`	`\27`
JS Escape	`\u02C8`	`\u0027`
Python Escape	`\u02C8`	`\u0027`
URL Encoded	`%CB%88`	`%27`
Category	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Spacing Modifier Letters`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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