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Right Single Quote HTML entity ’
’ is the HTML entity for Right Single Quote ’ (U+2019). Copy the decimal ’ and hex ’ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
’- Also written
’’- Code point
- U+2019
- Unicode name
- RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Final quote (Pf)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ’Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ’Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ’Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2019";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2019"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2019"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%99Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 993 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20191 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The closing single quote, which is also the typographic apostrophe in it’s and don’t. Use it instead of the straight ' in body text; many editors insert it automatically as a 'smart quote'.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More punctuation and typography
“Left Double Quote‖Double Vertical Line”Right Double Quote―Horizontal Bar„Double Low Quote—Em Dash†Dagger–En Dash
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).