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‘

‘

‘	U+2018, ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

← ‗
[U+2017]

General Punctuation

’ →
[U+2019]

See also: ʻ and '

Translingual

Alternative forms

' (informal)

Punctuation mark

‘

Used as a quotation mark in some languages.
1. ‘ ’
2. ’ ‘
3. ‚ ‘

See also

ʻ (Hawaiian 'okina)

quotation marks and quotation dashes in all languages (edit)

quotation marks - all matched-pairs

quotation marks and quotation dashes - all single characters

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
braces ( { } )
brackets ( [ ] )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
fraction slash ( ⁄ )
guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct ( · )
interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
parentheses ( ( ) )
period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? )

quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; )

slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / )

space ( )