Left Single Quotation Mark

U+2018
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Entity ‘
Decimal ‘
Hex ‘

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+2018
Decimal
8216
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Initial Punctuation (Pi)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous

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 — Left Single Quotation Mark.

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Format Value
HTML Named Entity
‘
HTML Decimal
‘
HTML Hex
‘
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 98
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 18
UTF-32 Hex
00002018
CSS Escape
\2018
JavaScript Escape
\u2018
Python Escape
\u2018
URL Encoded
%E2%80%98
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