U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

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Decimal / Nº
700
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+02BC, officially named MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Modifier Letters block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Modifier Letter, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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700 Copied!
UTF-8 CA BC Copied!
UTF-16 02 BC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 02 BC Copied!
URL-Quoted %CA%BC Copied!
HTML hex reference ʼ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'02BC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u02BC Copied!
C and C++ \u02bc Copied!
C# \u02bc Copied!
CSS \0002BC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(700) Copied!
Go \u02bc Copied!
JavaScript \u02BC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{02bc} Copied!
JSON \u02BC Copied!
Java \u02BC Copied!
Lua \u{02BC} Copied!
Matlab char(700) Copied!
Perl \x{02BC} Copied!
PHP \u{02bc} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\02BC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{02BC} Copied!
Python \u02bc Copied!
Ruby \u{02bc} Copied!
Rust \u{02bc} Copied!