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Modifier Letter Prime

U+02B9
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ʹ
Decimal ʹ
Hex ʹ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+02B9
Decimal
697
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Modifier Letter (Lm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Modifier Letter Prime.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ʹ
HTML Hex
ʹ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
CA B9
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
02 B9
UTF-32 Hex
000002B9
CSS Escape
\2B9
JavaScript Escape
\u02B9
Python Escape
\u02B9
URL Encoded
%CA%B9
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Modifier Letter Prime as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.