What is the difference between Reversed Prime and Apostrophe?

Reversed Prime is U+2035 in the General Punctuation 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 Reversed Prime?

The HTML entity for Reversed Prime (U+2035) is ‵.

What is the HTML entity for Apostrophe?

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

Are Reversed Prime and Apostrophe the same Unicode character?

No. Reversed Prime is U+2035 (decimal 8245) and Apostrophe is U+0027 (decimal 39). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Reversed Prime and Apostrophe?

Reversed Prime (U+2035) encodes as E2 80 B5 in UTF-8. Apostrophe (U+0027) encodes as 27 in UTF-8.

Reversed Prime 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.

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Reversed Prime

U+2035

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Apostrophe

U+0027

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Property Comparison

Property	Reversed Prime	Apostrophe
Codepoint	`U+2035`	`U+0027`
Decimal	`8245`	`39`
HTML Entity	`‵`	`'`
HTML Decimal	`‵`	`'`
HTML Hex	`‵`	`'`
UTF-8	`E2 80 B5`	`27`
UTF-16	`20 35`	`00 27`
UTF-32	`00002035`	`00000027`
CSS Escape	`\2035`	`\27`
JS Escape	`\u2035`	`\u0027`
Python Escape	`\u2035`	`\u0027`
URL Encoded	`%E2%80%B5`	`%27`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`General Punctuation`	`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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