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Right Single Quotation Mark
- Unicode
- U+2019
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- ’
- CSS
- \2019
The Right Single Quotation Mark (’) serves a dual purpose in modern typography: it acts as a closing single quote and is the preferred character for a proper typographic apostrophe. Unlike the straight typewriter apostrophe, this curved mark is designed to aesthetically match surrounding text fonts. It is widely used in professional publishing, word processors, and digital writing to indicate possession, contractions, or omitted letters.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+0146
- macOS
- Option+Shift+]
- Linux
- Compose + ' + >
- HTML
- ’
In Programming
While visually pleasing in regular text, this curly quote often causes syntax errors if accidentally pasted into source code, as most programming languages strictly require the straight ASCII apostrophe (') to define string literals.
Tags
closing quote
curly quote
apostrophe
punctuation
typography