ʼ

Modifier Letter Apostrophe

U+02BC
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character ʼ
Decimal ʼ
Hex ʼ

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+02BC
Decimal
700
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Modifier Letter (Lm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
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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 Apostrophe.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ʼ
HTML Hex
ʼ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
CA BC
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
02 BC
UTF-32 Hex
000002BC
CSS Escape
\2BC
JavaScript Escape
\u02BC
Python Escape
\u02BC
URL Encoded
%CA%BC
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Characters That Include This

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